phthisical

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What then of these child-martyrs of The Poor, who in addition to the strain of growth, are ill-fed, poisoned by unsuitable foods; are sickly, rickety, bronchitic, dyspeptic, syphilitic, phthisical?

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

No bacilli have appeared in their sputum for the past three months, and their phthisical symptoms have gradually and completely disappeared.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various

Hippocrates pointed out as one of the symptoms of consumption the spes phthisical or consumptive hope.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

When he had spoken, his voice had had the flat, deadly softness of the exhausted phthisical sufferer's.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

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