phthisical

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M. Lespiaud, attached to the surgical department of the Val-de-Grace, in presence of several of his colleagues, extracted granular matter from the body of a phthisical subject, and introduced it under his own integument.

From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)

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

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

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

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

When he had spoken, his voice had had the flat, deadly softness of the exhausted phthisical sufferer's.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard