phthisical
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Some phthisical sufferers, of whom there are here, alas! too many, were now admitted from time to time into St. Vincent's Hospital.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various
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
He even went so far as to say that he thought the best food of the consumptive or the phthisical, as he called them, was milk and eggs.
From Health Through Will Power by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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
When he had spoken, his voice had had the flat, deadly softness of the exhausted phthisical sufferer's.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
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