consumptive

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Thus, in 1913, the Jewish Consumptive Relief Assn. founded and funded two tent-cottages on 10 sunny acres in Duarte as a free and nonsectarian sanitarium.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2022

Dr. Lewis Israel Miller, medical chairman of the large Jewish Consumptive Relief Society in Denver, predicted last week that the rate may go up.

From Time Magazine Archive

Consumptive son of an English parson, Cecil John Rhodes had come to South Africa for his health, carrying nothing but a Greek lexicon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Consumptive people continue to live, whenever their lives are prolonged, as the consequence of what they do to promote their general health.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Consumptive patients are, however, soon carried off, the biting blasts from the Canadian shores proving very fatal in pulmonary complaints, and the winters being very severe.

From An Englishman's Travels in America His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States by Benwell, John