phthisical

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Persons who have a marked predisposition to the disease had best not come in close contact with the phthisical.

From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by McCarty, Louis Philippe

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

At least the sound Churchman would speedily get out of condition; grow as phthisical and hectic as any hero of a "religious" novel.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

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

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.

"The company says there was a phthisical tendency."

From The Fruit of the Tree by Kimball, Alonzo