phthisical
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After exertion Jurine, Guyton, and Driessen observed luminous urine passed by healthy persons, and Nasse mentions the same phenomenon in a phthisical patient.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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
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 Henry Laing Gordon
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
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 George H. (George Henry) Napheys
