valetudinary
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It is still visited by valetudinary people, especially on the 1st of May and the 1st of August.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
It renders the habit of society dangerously valetudinary; it is taking periodical doses of mercury sublimate, and swallowing down repeated provocatives of cantharides to our love of liberty.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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 Robert Means Lawrence
I was first entertained by his lady and daughter, he himself being in bed with a cold, according to his valetudinary custom.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
Beside these suffering men Lord George lay on a floor all night, having given up the minister's house in Musselburgh, which had been destined as his quarters, to those who were valetudinary.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Mrs. Thomson
