phthisick
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]phthisick
Noun
[edit]phthisick (plural phthisicks)
- Obsolete form of phthisic.
- 1661, [John Evelyn] J. E. Esq, Fumifugium; Or, the Inconvenience of the Aer and Smoake of London Dissipated. Together With some Remedies humbly proposed p. 18.:
- ...her Inhabitants breathe nothing but an impure and thick Mist, accompanied with a fuliginous and filthy vapour, which renders them obnoxious to a thousand inconveniences, corrupting the Lungs, and disordering the entire habit of their Bodies; so that Catharrs, Phthisicks, Coughs and Consumptions, rage more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides.
- 1661, [John Evelyn] J. E. Esq, Fumifugium; Or, the Inconvenience of the Aer and Smoake of London Dissipated. Together With some Remedies humbly proposed p. 18.: