phthisical

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My dear fellow, you're a phthisical subject—not to mince matters.

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.

Its power of checking phthisical looseness of the bowels was very marked, and experiment proved that this was not merely due to the well known astringent properties of boiled milk.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various

Hippocrates pointed out as one of the symptoms of consumption the spes phthisical or consumptive hope.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

In 1794 he married a sister of Maria Edgeworth; and in 1798, with the pecuniary aid of Wedgwood, opened a pneumatic institution for curing phthisical and other diseases by inhalation of gases.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various

If the sputum of a phthisical patient be submitted to the skilled microscopist, he is nearly always able to demonstrate bacilli, but this goes for very little.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various