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
His cheeks were pallid and lank, his eyes sunken, his forehead overshadowed by coarse straggling hairs, his teeth large and irregular, though sound and brilliantly white, and his chin discolored by a tetter.
From The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American by Julian Hawthorne
In the fever or the berebarde," "Berbi, O.F., chancre, dartre; a boil, bubo, or tetter, commonly attendant upon pestilent fever.
From Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 by Various
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 Harry Caulton Reeks
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 The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
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