rheumatics
Britishnoun
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Ten years ago, when the International Congress on Rheumatic Diseases last met, the yanking of teeth and tonsils was a leading treatment recommended by the rheumatics experts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Climate may be, and University of Pennsylvania researchers have confirmed an old wives' tale: patients with "rheumatics" do indeed feel worse when the barometer is going down and the humidity is going up.
From Time Magazine Archive
He planned to join the rheumatics for some quiet mud baths; she would take some slow, countryside motor trips.
From Time Magazine Archive
On each of the three anniversary days, some 20 to 30 others were bedded with rheumatics, colds, shock, weariness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Housewives of a provident turn of mind filled their cupboards with treacle as a medicine for bad air, and with home-made plasters called Flos Unguentorum for the rheumatics and musk- balls to smell.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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