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Thus the elephantiasis, being an intense scabbiness, is not a new kind; nor is the water-dread distinguished from other melancholic and stomachical affections but only by the degree.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Yet this is nothing near the worst sort, and is naught else but a kind of a scabbiness that the most accomplishedst marriages are infected with.

From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by Marsh, A.