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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
5 pathology terms (diseases and disease symptoms)
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piles
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synonyms: emerods ???
tags: [pathosis]
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Definition:hemorrhoids
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he allowed his bowels to ease themselves quietly as he read, reading still patiently that slight constipation of yesterday quite gone. Hope it’s not too big bring on piles again. No, just right. So. Ah! Costive. One tabloid of cascara sagrada.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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The doctors paid little attention to him. His vision was normal, he did not have piles, flat feet, hernia, or gonorrhea. He did not have syphilis or epilepsy, and in a minute and a half interview a psychiatrist decided he was sane enough for the purposes of modem warfare.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.169 (1948)
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if I should say, in a letter to a friend, ‘Our brother Tom has just got the piles,’ a skilful decipherer would discover, that the same letters which compose that sentence, may be analysed into the following words, ‘Resist ---, a plot is brought home—The tour.’ And this is the anagrammatic method.”
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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an expedition than Old Dr. Alagash’s Traveling Laboratory, which specialized in the Choctaw Cancer Cure, the Chinook Consumption Soother, and the Oriental Remedy for Piles and Rheumatism Prepared from a World-old Secret Formula by the Gipsy Princess, Queen Peshawara.
Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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cold-humor his piles on the damp turf.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita.
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That casteth figures and can conjure, cures
Plagues, piles, and pox, by the ephemerides,
And holds intelligence with all the bawds
And midwives of three shires: while you send in—
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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