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Inheriting melancholia from his father and scrofulously infected by his nurse's milk, Sam Johnson got off to a bad start.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Clean, ma'am," says Jane, raising her black gloved hands to emphasise the affirmation, "she's scrofulously clean!"

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie

Fatal results are due to scrofulously diseased bones, joints or glands, and it can not be denied that a large number of children succumb in this manner.

From Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated by Brendecke, Fr. (Friedrich)