tetter
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Mrs. Bains put a hand on the taller boy’s hair and fingered it lightly, absently searching with her nails for tetter spots.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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Four years later, Bouley is found holding the opinion that canker was closely allied to tetter, thus recognising for it a local specific cause.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
Dose of infusion as an emetic one to four teaspoonfuls: For ringworm, tetter and warts, it is applied locally, freely.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
This is a pitiful letter For want of a better; But plagued with a tetter, My fancy does fetter.
From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan
The patients had both been subject to rheumatism; and, in one of them, this had been supplanted by an eruption Of tetter: on the disappearance of which last the globus appeared.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
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