phthisical
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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
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
I have also used this drug in troublesome cough with dyspnœa of phthisical patients with good result.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
I will do my best to make calamity of long life, by keeping the rheumatic and epileptic and phthisical alive, while I know how.
From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George
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)
