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Definition of Phthisics
1. phthisic [n] - See also: phthisic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phthisics
Literary usage of Phthisics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baltimore Medical and Surgical Journal and Review edited by Eli Geddings (1833)
"That it aggravates those diarrhoeas which have rebelled against opium, and ought
not to be given to phthisics under such circumstances. 5. ..."
2. Birmingham Medical Review (1894)
"Close physical intimacy of life between phthisics and non-phthisics must be
strenuously striven against, and most of all must we, as physicians, ..."
3. Practice of Medicine: Containing the Homeopathic Treatment of Diseases by Pierre Jousset (1901)
"phthisics suffer in their last term of existence from pains in the limbs, when
Bryonia, Eupatorium perf., and Rhus tox. become indicated while their ..."
4. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"And generally diseases that are chronical, as coughs, phthisics, some kinds of
palsies, lunacies, &c., are more dangerous at the first. ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1902)
"... asylums should be provided with special isolation wards for phthisics. and even
that special asylums be founded for the care of phthisical insane. ..."
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