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Scrofulous

adjective

Afflicted with scrofula.

Morally contaminated.

Having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula.

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"Scrofulous" Quotes from Famous Books

... and no fever, but a fall of temperature below the normal standard. Having regard to which train of symptoms it is fair to suppose the acorn will afford in the human subject a useful specific medicine for the marasmus, or wasting atrophy of young children who are scrofulous. The fruit should be given in the form of a tincture, or vegetable extract, or even admixed (when ground) sparingly with wheaten flour in bread. The dose should fall short of producing any of the above symptoms, and the remedy should be steadily ...

— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... from American lips, that America is as immoral as France—that American society is every whit as depraved as the French. It is not. The immorality of America is as a festering wound on an otherwise healthy body: the immorality of France is like a scrofulous taint that poisons the whole life-current. One gets weary and heartsick with the old eternal song, the everlasting theme, which is sung and told and dramatized and written about and painted—that flies in your face at every corner and stares up at you ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876 • Various

Words linked to "Scrofulous" : scrofula, sick, ill, ugly, immoral