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5 pathology terms (diseases and disease symptoms)
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scrofula
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synonyms: kingʼs evil, phthisis, struma, consumption, hectic, ~tisick ???
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Definition:a swelling of the lymph nodes around the neck, normally associated with tuberculosis
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The blind man held out his hat, that flapped about at the door, as if it were a bag in the lining that had come unnailed. "This," said the chemist, "is a scrofulous affection."
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Darlene put the cage on the bar and uncovered a huge, scrofulous rose cockatoo that looked, like a used car, as if it had passed through the hands of many owners. The bird’s crest dipped, and it cried horribly, “Awwk.”
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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the productions of such marriages are generally scrofulous, rickety, or deformed children; by which means the family seldom continues above three generations, unless the wife takes care to provide a healthy father, among her neighbours or domestics, in order to improve and continue the breed.
Jonathan Swift. A Modest Proposal (1729)
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.215
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It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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