He wavered along on a stick, planted before him with a blue phthisic hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Wolfe’s ‘Angel’ of Death - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Persons affected with asthma or phthisic are numerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

This is an excellent article in Asthma, (phthisic,) colds, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference

And our strength, till we've thrown ourselves into a phthisic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference

It is an excellent medicine in case of croup and asthma or phthisic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference

The bruised seeds taken every morning, has of itself cured phthisic or asthma.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference

I suppose, poor half-starved phthisic lad, that he was the most miserable of us all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father and Son: a study of two temperaments] Reference

Page 263 and expectorant, and is valuable in coughs, asthma or phthisic and consumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference

A syrup made of the root is useful in phthisic, (asthma,) and bad colds, after the inflammatory stage ceases.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference

In heart disease there is often dyspnoea, or difficult breathing, but this is not of the nature of asthma, or phthisic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

It is really ghapsignaphthing ( 'fascinating': gh as in tough, ti as in nation, gn as in gnaw, phth as in phthisic) to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference

The treatment of asthma, or phthisic, still continues to be a prominent specialty at the Invalids 'Hotel and Surgical Institute.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

She went before the commissary, but was obliged to return with that 'becco ettico,' as she called the poor man, who had a phthisic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference

The onion bruised and mixed with or stewed in lard, is one of the best external applications in the world for croup, colds, sore throat, phthisic, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference

The sourwood molasses combined with sugar and British or sweet oil, is also a valuable remedy for phthisic or asthma, and for diseases of the lungs generally.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference

What you are about, I cannot guess, even from your date; -- not dauncing to the sound of the gitourney in the Halls of the Lowthers? one of whom is here, ill, poor thing, with a phthisic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference

The long flashback into the phthisic heart of nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference

Now, Larry, do you know the difference between physic and phthisic? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference

Bless you, I never have the phthisic, but she does awful; an 'I s'pose 'cause she's so large she can't feel all over her, an' thinks it's me that has it. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Toby Tyler] Reference

"Samuel," she screamed again, "come inside this minute, or you'll catch your death o 'cold, an' I shall have you wheezin 'around with the phthisic all night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toby Tyler] Reference

May banish the phthisic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829] Reference

The phthisic, the palsy, and the gout.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays] Reference

That phthisic settled her for Reg'larism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keziah Coffin] Reference

"Don't believe you can spell 'phthisic,' though.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Grandfather] Reference

Them was our brag-words, phthisic and asthma was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonny, a Christmas Guest] Reference

A phthisic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference

29. phthisic.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference

Well, then, spell phthisic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference

A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar] Reference

I kill with dropsy, phthisic, stone, and gout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England] Reference