Her children have diseases of the eyes, skin, glands and bones, and the doctor will apply the term scrofula, when the result is nothing more or less than inherited syphilis. 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
There is a certain disease called the scrofula, which in former times had the name of the King's Evil. From Wordnik.com. [Charles I Makers of History] Reference
The oil is used for skin diseases such as scrofula, indolent ulcers, and ringworm. From Wordnik.com. [7 Medicinals] Reference
I don't have scrofula, but it was a comforting thought, anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Mr. President: A response to Obama's answer to the left] Reference
In such a soil, catarrh, scrofula, and kindred diseases run riot. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
The cure of scrofula is generally so difficult that it has become an. From Wordnik.com. [Observations on the Causes, Symptoms, and Nature of Scrofula or King's Evil, Scurvy, and Cancer With Cases Illustrative of a Peculiar Mode of Treatment] Reference
scrofula, I chanted as I slid the tines in — scrofula is what I am searching for. From Wordnik.com. [Scrofula] Reference
In his case at least the touch was inefficacious, for he was subject to scrofula all his life. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
But after he went to war and come back with the scrofula, they just made him a carriage driver. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference
Diseases which may be inherited include rheumatism, gout, scrofula, diabetes, cancer and insanity. From Wordnik.com. [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference
The presentation of a second golden touch-piece was alleged to be effective in subduing the scrofula. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
He got sick with the scrofula and they sent him back to his old master, Dr. Harris, in Enfield, North. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference
Catholic was converted on finding that Elizabeth, after the Pope's excommunication, could cure his scrofula. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
The kings of England and France long pretended to possess the power of curing scrofula by touching the sore. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] 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
Likewise for scrofula, seawater, being rich in chlorides and iodides, has proved both curative and preventive. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Nevertheless, this sulphur is a very salutary constituent of the vegetable, most useful in scurvy and scrofula. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Laurentius reports that Francis I, when a prisoner in Spain, cured a great number of people of struma (scrofula). From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Puritans were enunciating their lofty principles, it was generally held that the king's touch would cure scrofula. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Dr. Cullen employed a decoction of the leaves with much benefit in scrofula, where the use of sea water had failed. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Where there is a family tendency to scrofula, care should be taken to treat promptly any case of glandular swelling. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
Mr. President, I voted for you because everyone else in my demographic said that you could cure scrofula with your touch. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Mr. President: A response to Obama's answer to the left] Reference
The royal touch was especially efficacious in epilepsy and scrofula, the latter being consequently known as "king's-evil.". From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Epilepsy is more common with them than with the latter, and they are more liable to scrofula than any other domestic animals. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals] Reference
Dr. Daniel Turner, though, relates that several cases of scrofula which had been unsuccessfully treated by himself and Dr. Charles. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
The diseases which are found hereditary in cattle are scrofula, consumption, dysentery, diarrhoea, rheumatism, and malignant tumors. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
The diseases which are found hereditary in neat cattle are scrofula, consumption, dysentery, diarrhea, rheumatism and malignant tumors. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals] Reference
Probably the most fatal and common excitants of the latent seeds of scrofula are insufficient or improper food, and want of ventilation. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
It has always been a popular superstition that the scrofula could be cured by the touch of a king or of the seventh son of a seventh son. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
Having thus described the nature and symptoms of scrofula, I shall now proceed to make some observations on the treatment of that disease. From Wordnik.com. [Observations on the Causes, Symptoms, and Nature of Scrofula or King's Evil, Scurvy, and Cancer With Cases Illustrative of a Peculiar Mode of Treatment] Reference
That in delicate constitutions it sometimes excites scrofula is a fact that must generally be subscribed to, as it is so obvious to common observation. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Jeremy Collier maintained that the scrofula miracle is hereditary upon all his successors, but we find that not blood but royal prestige was the secret. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Other non-suppurative diseases of the middle ear are whooping cough, scrofula, exposure and cold, disease of the throat, thickening of eardrum, croup, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference
This applies to all who have a tendency to consumption, scrofula, insanity, or any other of those diseases which are so frequently transmitted to offspring. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
The waters, which are used for drinking and in baths, are efficacious in the treatment of wounds and ulcers and in cases of scrofula, gout, skin diseases, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
A valuable remedy for scrofula, and all scrofulous skin diseases, as tetter, herpes, leprosy, and the like; also a valuable alterative in all constitutional diseases. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
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