"Herpes" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bark for cutaneous eruptions, herpes, and lepra. Four ounces of the bark boiled in decoction in two quarts of water down to one quart. That half a pint given twice a day has made inveterate eruptions of lepra, both dry ...
— The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses • Robert Charles Hope
... 1811 this plant was subjected to a regular set of experiments by Dr. G. Playfair, who, with many of his brethren, bears ample testimony of its efficacy in leprosy, lues, tenia, herpes, dropsy, rheumatism, hectic and intermittent fever. The powdered bark is given in doses of 5-6 grains twice a ...
— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson
... involved. In the right arm there was unendurable pain to the touch, and this was present in a lesser degree in the left arm. Cutaneous sensibility was lessened. On June 13th a chill was followed by herpes over the left arm and chest, and later on the back and on the front of the chest. The temperature was normal. The second case was a married Englishwoman of sixty-four. The enlarged tissue was very unevenly ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... Interesting words in this document: | | | | A rampike is an erect broken or dead tree. | | Eyrie is an alternate spelling for Aerie. | | Tetter is a generic name for a number of skin diseases, | | such as eczema, psoriasis, or herpes, characterized by | | eruptions and itching. | | ...
— The Old Front Line • John Masefield
... chorea, cynanche^, dartre [Fr.]; enanthem^, enanthema^; erysipelas; exanthem^, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps^, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis^, pneumonia, psora^, pyaemia^, pyrosis [Med.], quinsy, rachitis^, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma^, syntexis^, tetanus, tetter^, tonsillitis, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
