valetudinary
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It renders the habit of society dangerously valetudinary; it is taking periodical doses of mercury sublimate, and swallowing down repeated provocatives of cantharides to our love of liberty.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Monsieur St. Euvremont makes thus his potage de santé of boiled meat for dinner being very valetudinary....
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
Instead of making him a valetudinary, this continual liability to death aided to make him a hero.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 by Various
The buoyant mountain trips we have touched upon, and more, are within almost instant call of every dispirited Pau valetudinary, and of farther travelers as well.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
It is worthy of remark, that the Austrian medical officers send the valetudinary among the soldiers to these baths from a very great distance.
From Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig
