phthisical
Americanadjective
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He had been under the care of my predecessor, and had been entered as a phthisical patient.
From Modern Magic by Maximilian Schele de Vere
In our cities, not one phthisical invalid in ten, especially among women, can command facilities for daily horseback-riding, still less can they take long journeys.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
In 1794 he married a sister of Maria Edgeworth; and in 1798, with the pecuniary aid of Wedgwood, opened a pneumatic institution for curing phthisical and other diseases by inhalation of gases.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
"The company says there was a phthisical tendency."
From The Fruit of the Tree by Alonzo Kimball
Persons who have a marked predisposition to the disease had best not come in close contact with the phthisical.
From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by Louis Philippe McCarty
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