phthisical
Americanadjective
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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 McCarty, Louis Philippe
After exertion Jurine, Guyton, and Driessen observed luminous urine passed by healthy persons, and Nasse mentions the same phenomenon in a phthisical patient.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
He was fond of telling how his phthisical tendencies gained him the appointment.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
Oneguine's cheek grew ashy pale, Either she saw not or ignored; Oneguine wasted; on my word, Already he grew phthisical.
From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry
Hippocrates pointed out as one of the symptoms of consumption the spes phthisical or consumptive hope.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
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