valetudinarian

I felt that, were I to remain where I was, I should die, or become a confirmed valetudinarian.

In a few months the trustee settled at Boulogne died; the trust, of course, lapsed to Mr. Stubmore, the valetudinarian survivor.

"Which is certainly not suggestive of a valetudinarian," remarked Lucian, looking hard at the stranger.

In person he was very thin and somewhat under the middle height, and had all the air of a confirmed valetudinarian.

Or they live the years when men should be still in their prime—valetudinarian and hypochondriac.