pituitous

Those die whom the fever does not leave, or when appearing to leave them it returns with an exacerbation; when they have thirst, but no desire of food, and there are watery discharges from the bowels; when the expectoration is green or livid, or pituitous and frothy; if all these occur they die, but if certain of these symptoms supervene, and others not, some patients die and some recover, after a long interval.

The Book Of Prognostics 2007

The men must necessarily be well braced and slender, and they must have the discharges downwards of the alimentary canal hard, and of difficult evacuation, while those upwards are more fluid, and rather bilious than pituitous.

On Airs, Waters, And Places 2007

Persons who are bilious in the stomach bear these changes worst, while those who are pituitous, upon the whole, bear the want of food best, so that they suffer the least from being restricted to one meal in the day, contrary to usage.

On Regimen In Acute Diseases 2007

Fortieth, dejections pituitous, white, rather frequent; sweated abundantly all over; had a complete crisis.

Of The Epidemics 2007

The leg was greatly swelled, and imbued with a pituitous humor ... and bent and drawn back.

The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

The leg was greatly swelled, and imbued with a pituitous humor … and bent and drawn back.

The Journey to Flanders. 1569 1909

'Before I came away I sent poor Mrs. Williams into the country, very ill of a pituitous defluxion, which wastes her gradually away, and which her physician declares himself unable to stop.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Tell them -- and this, experience attests -- that every man born under the sign of Saturn is melancholy and pituitous, taciturn and solitary, poor and vain; that that sluggish star predisposes to superstition and fraud, directs epilepsies and varices, hemorrhoids and leprosies; that it is, alas! the great purveyor to hospital and prison -- and the scientists will shrug their shoulders and laugh at you.

Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877

'Before I came away I sent poor Mrs. Williams into the country, very ill of a pituitous defluxion, which wastes her gradually away, and which her physician declares himself unable to stop.

Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767

Leucophlegmaticl, a Per - fon troubled with a pituitous Dropfy, ©r a Dropfy that fcizes the whole Body.

Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever ... 1707