Phthisical

Phthisical persons, the hairs of whose head fall off, die if diarrhoea set in.

Aphorisms 2007

Phthisical sputa are dried and made moist with very much diluted potash lye (1 to 2 drops of a 33 per cent. potash lye in a watch glass of distilled water).

Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various

I then applied my self to the Study of several Authors, who have written upon Phthisical Distempers, and by that means fell into a Consumption, 'till at length, growing very fat, I was in a manner shamed out of that Imagination.

Spectator, March 29, 1711 1711

I then applied my self to the Study of several Authors, who have written upon Phthisical

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

Phthisical pa - tients have repeatedly been observed to make a hearty dinner of beef-stakes a very few hours before 4eath,

Observations on the Distinguishing Symptoms of Three Different Species of ... 1813