phthisical

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I will do my best to make calamity of long life, by keeping the rheumatic and epileptic and phthisical alive, while I know how.

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George

He even went so far as to say that he thought the best food of the consumptive or the phthisical, as he called them, was milk and eggs.

From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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

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

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

He asked him to inquire specially as to the effect of the climate on consumption, and pointed out that Pliny described Egypt seventeen centuries ago as the best climate for phthisical patients.

From Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine by Gordon, Henry Laing