valetudinary

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Those subject to this Malady are valetudinary weakly Persons, who are disordered from many slight Causes, and whose Stomachs are at once very feeble and extremely sensible.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Monsieur St. Euvremont makes thus his potage de santé of boiled meat for dinner being very valetudinary....

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne

An adagio may set a gouty father to sleep, and a capriccio may operate successfully on the nerves of a valetudinary mother.

From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Lawrence, Robert Means

Could a person in this condition execute violence against another?—I, feeble and valetudinary, with no inducement to engage—no ability to accomplish—no weapon wherewith to perpetrate such a fact;—without interest, without power, without motives, without means!

From Eugene Aram — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

It is still visited by valetudinary people, especially on the 1st of May and the 1st of August.

From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.