strumous
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Cod-liver oil is often a remedy of great value, and is especially useful in strumous and debilitated subjects.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
He came again, and asked me questions concerning my father and mother; what my grandparents died of; and whether any of my family were strumous.
From The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard
When a whole family is swept away by Hydrocephalus, I suspect it is intimately connected with this strumous taint.'
From Remarks on the Subject of Lactation by Edward Morton
Again the yellow oxide of mercury should only be used in the more superficial, strumous forms of inflammation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
It is not infrequently observed in the strumous and debilitated.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
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