What is Phthisis?

[Neil Todd]

WHAT IS "PHTHISIS"?

Pulmonary Hardening The Higher Integrated Simple Internal Sacs.

Neil? Never exceptional Introverted Lardhead 

TB? Too Bad
 
Well, it is the lighter side

[Hampshire Lass]

Inn an earlier post, a kind soul highlighted this useful site:

http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/Index.htm

It's a list of archaic medical terms.

Thanks for that link diplodicus....it's a brilliant site   

[GrahamSimons]

OED states that it's classical Latin phthisis, from Greek ϕθίσις ; the earliest medical use it cites was in 1552. Interestingly there is another condition:  phthisis bulbi, defined as atrophy of the entire eye, with shrinkage of the globe.

[1pds]

Thanks Neil Todd, I wondered where the name came from.  

[1pds]

Thanks too graham. Is the acronym a coincidence?