tetter
Example Sentences
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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
Its use undeniably produces scrofula, salt-rheum, tetter, ringworm, humors in the blood, rheumed eyes, enlarged glands, sore eyes, and lastly, cancer.
From Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. by Ledyard Bill
Ringworm is a curious form of tetter, in which the inflamed patches assume the form of a ring.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs
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
