Persons affected with asthma or phthisic are numerous.
Then Dilsie could sleep in the cabin, as she ought to on account of the jimsonweed in her phthisic pipe.
Aunt Dilsie being reduced by her phthisic to a position that is almost entirely ornamental, Henrietta's strength of character is the only thing that has made the existence of the twins bearable to themselves or other people.
Well, my phthisic was very bad last winter, you know.
They call it phthisic only because that's the very hardest word in the book to spell.
The root boiled, and eaten with oil and vinegar, (or without oil) do much please and warm old and cold stomachs oppressed with wind or phlegm, or those that have the phthisic or consumption of the lungs.
