phtisic

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English

Adjective

phtisic (not comparable)

  1. Nonstandard spelling of phthisic.
    • 1890, Robert Koch, Aetiology of Tuberculosis, page 15:
      Bacteria coming from the mouth are almost always to be found in phtisic sputum.
    • 1898, The Old Man Young Again, Or, Age-rejuvenescence in the Power of Concupiscence, page 255:
      Among the phtisic Coyntes, some are like a little flat with a slit in it, enveloped in a little skin, without either mount or border.
    • 1922, Robert Sessions Woodworth, Archives of Psychology, page 3:
      The socalled phtisic and apopleptic habitus are old denominations used by the ancient physicians to designate respectively a long thin and a short broad physical constitution. According to the volume of the trunk in relation to the other […]

Noun

phtisic (plural not attested)

  1. Nonstandard spelling of phthisic.
    • 1875, Ben Jonson, William Gifford, Sejanus his fall ; Volpone: or, The fox ; Epiccene: or, The silent woman, page 178:
      Now, my feign'd cough, my phtisic, and my gout, […]
    • 1903, Ferdinand Eugene Daniel, Medical Insurance: Devoted to the Insurance Examiner and Clinical Diagnostician, page 409:
      We need money and laws for that purpose. We need f.e. a law to be able to separate an infectious phtisic from his family even against his own will.

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