Doctors believe that there is a genetic factor in rheumatic fever: Some families are much more likely to develop it. From Wordnik.com. [Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease] Reference
There are over 200 kinds of rheumatic diseases - the word rheumatic means aches and pains in joints, bones and muscles. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
Some other diseases are erroneously called rheumatic, as hemicrania, and odontalgia. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
He had what was called rheumatic fever and the doctor had to drain fluid from his back. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
Painful joints in young people and children may be a sign of other serious illness, such as rheumatic fever or tuberculosis. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 20] Reference
This is often announced by 'rheumatic' pains in the legs. From Wordnik.com. [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference
The majority of cases are of the so-called "rheumatic" variety, and are attributed to exposure to cold. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
He was weak and rheumatic; he was also timid and easily confused. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
The Captain was seventy years of age, rheumatic, and slightly bent. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheep Eaters] Reference
He was much annoyed by rheumatic pains, which I considered specific. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
He also consulted a specialist, who pronounced the paralysis rheumatic. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
Gratian had been a great fisherman in his day, as his rheumatic pains can now testify. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
He and I were college-mates and he had been mighty good in treating rheumatic troubles. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Give two tablespoonsful every four or six hours, and rub with the anti-rheumatic liniment. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Antibiotics will stamp out her ear infections before they can blossom into rheumatic fever. From Wordnik.com. [How We Heal] Reference
You know that is recommended in rheumatic cases; but perhaps you don't know that I tried it. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
She never would get over her love of running, she felt sure, until she was old and rheumatic. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
To be applied to bruises, rheumatic parts, &c., and to the neck in inflammation of the throat. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Or their emaciated and rheumatic frames toiled in speechless agony amid the horrors of Siberia's mines. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
It is narrated that when Greatrakes was practising in London, a rheumatic and gouty patient came to him. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
So far, the most conclusive connection is between strep throat and rheumatic fever, an autoimmune disorder. From Wordnik.com. [Autoimmune Disorders] Reference
Reaching Toronto, I learned that my eldest son was at death's door from repeated attacks of rheumatic fever. From Wordnik.com. [How I Know God Answers Prayer The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time] Reference
I was afraid, Aquilius, when you came to the "phlegmatic" you would rhyme it to "rheumatic," and so on to the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
It is eminently diaphoretic, diuretic, and tonic, and excellent for rheumatism, rheumatic gout, and scrofula. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
If the child complains of so-called "growing pains," keep in mind that these are rheumatic and may need attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
The flexor tendons of the fingers of both hands were more or less contracted, the result of previous rheumatic attacks. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
The German veterinarians attribute it to irritation of the muscles by cold, and classify azoturia as a rheumatic disorder. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
This is Col. Birch's recipe for rheumatic gout or acute rheumatism, commonly called in England the "Chelsea Pensioner.". From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Many cases of rheumatic fever have been induced through impoverishment, caused by excesses on the part of young married men. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
I am bound to confess that the fishermen of Apatin impressed me as being rather rheumatic, but perhaps this was only a fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Many a man of intelligence and education has been known to conceal a horse-chestnut in his pocket as an anti-rheumatic charm. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
Spirits of camphor ten parts and turpentine two parts, applied daily, are useful in relieving the soreness of rheumatic muscles. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Take two tablespoonsful three or four times a day in chronic rheumatism; rub well the affected part with anti-rheumatic liniment. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
But the little old woman with the bent back and rheumatic limbs understood one thing, if she made nothing else out of the general gabble. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
Binks, though rheumatic and a trifle bent, still retained some of the strength that had made him a byword as an athlete in his young days. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
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