barbiers

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A paralytic disease formerly very common in India, and believed to be identical with beriberi (which see), or to be another form of that disease.

Wiktionary

1. n. medicine, archaic A paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast, thought to be a chronic form of beriberi.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Med.) A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in a chronic form.