phthisic

Yes, there's considerable of ager and phthisic and bilious fever.

They call it phthisic only because thats the very hardest word in the book to spell.

She put it on her knee, and played a tune that would have made gout, cholic and phthisic dance upon their last legs.

Then Dilsie could sleep in the cabin, as she ought to on account of the jimsonweed in her phthisic pipe.