phthisical

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Easy is it now to understand the similarity between the "cold abscess" of the cervical region and the "cold abscess" of the lung in a phthisical patient.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various

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

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.

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

There exist the scrofulous, the phthisical, the gouty, the rheumatic diatheses, and, hence, the question of heredity is of the utmost importance in reference to many forms of disease.

From Insanity Its Causes and Prevention by Stearns, Henry Putnam