cachetic

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There is a deleterious practice of some of the Irish peasantry connected with their belief in fairies, which consists of giving a cachetic or rachitic child large doses of a preparation of fox-glove

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  • There is a deleterious practice of some of the Irish peasantry connected with their belief in fairies, which consists of giving a cachetic or rachitic child large doses of a preparation of fox-glove —  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • Walt Whitman speaks of the ashen grey faces of onanists: the faded colours, the puffy features and the unwholesome complexion of the professed pederast with his peculiar cachetic expression, indescribable but once seen never forgotten, stamp the breed, and Dr.G. Adolph is justified in declaring "Alle G.wohnneits-paederasten erkennen sich einander schnell, oft met einen Thick." —  Arabian nights. English
 

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