phthisical
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Mother and two uncles phthisical; maternal grandfather epileptic and a drinker.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
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
The non-professional notion respecting the curative powers of climate is, that by breathing a mild and soothing atmosphere, the phthisical patient withdraws irritation, and leaves nature at liberty to effect her own cure.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 by William Chambers
In the convalescence, the lungs were affected, he coughed, and in expectoration raised great quantities of phlegm, and really resembled a phthisical patient.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Easy is it now to understand the similarity between the "cold abscess" of the cervical region and the "cold abscess" of the lung in a phthisical patient.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various
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