phthisical

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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

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 Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

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

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 Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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 Chambers, William