Scrofula - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: scrofulaScrofula
A constitutional disease generally hereditary especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands particularly those of the neck and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin mucous membrane bones joints and other parts and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character and may develop into general or local tuberculosis consumption...
Scrofulide
Any affection of the skin dependent on scrofula...
Scrofulous
Pertaining to scrofula or partaking of its nature as scrofulous tumors a scrofulous habit of body...
King's evil
King's evil, scrofula, formerly supposed to be cured by the King touching the sufferer and hanging round his neck a white ribbon to which was fastened a gold coin; for an account of the ceremony of 'touching,' see Macaulay's Hist. Of England, ch. xiv....
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