hectical

For that redness of the cheek is but the sign of the fever which, after the Grecians, we do call the hectical; and that shining of the eyes is but a sickly glazing, and they which do every day get better and likewise thinner and weaker shall find that way leadeth to the church-yard gate.

Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

For that redness of the cheek is but the sign of the fever which, after the Grecians, we do call the hectical; and that shining of the eyes is but a sickly glazing, and they which do every day get better and likewise thinner and weaker shall find that way leadeth to the church-yard gate.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Victorius gives a serious account of a consumptive, hectical, phthisical woman, who was suddenly cured by the intercession of

Letter to a Friend 2007

Moreover, says Dr. Waterhouse, after a long and honorable course of practice, "I never observed so many pallid faces, and so many marks of declining health; nor ever knew so many hectical habits, and consumptive affections, as of late years; and I trace this alarming inroad on young constitutions,

A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation Orin Fowler 1821

Of one of the sorts of cork are made pretty cups, and other vessels, esteem’d good to drink out of for hectical persons: The Egyptians made their coffins of it, which being lin’d with a resinous composition, preserved their dead incorrupt:

Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663

III. d] Angelus Victorius gives a serious account of a consumptive, hectical, phthisical woman, who was suddenly cured by the intercession of Ignatius.

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643