phthisical

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He was fond of telling how his phthisical tendencies gained him the appointment.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various

Were it so, the Dorians and Athenians, including Sophocles, Pindar, �schines, Epaminondas, all the Spartan kings and generals, the Theban legion, Pheidias, Plato, would have been one nation of rickety, phthisical, dropsical paralytics.

From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by Symonds, John Addington

That it eases phthisical cough there can be no doubt; in fact, some of the patients scarcely took their cough mixtures at all--an unmixed boon to phthisical sufferers with delicate stomachs.

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

No bacilli have appeared in their sputum for the past three months, and their phthisical symptoms have gradually and completely disappeared.

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

The subjects are generally women; they are mostly of that class of phthisical patients who have a quick intelligence, fine soft hair, and a sanguine temperament.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.