scald-head

Children with scald-head, scabies, and sore eyes swarmed.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

It is painful to see the prevalence of such repulsive maladies as scabies, scald-head, ringworm, sore eyes, and unwholesome-looking eruptions, and fully 30 per cent of the village people are badly seamed with smallpox.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

Morgan presents us with a description of him at this period which in these more squeamish days can certainly not be set down in its entirety: suffice it to say that he suffered all his days from what is known as "scald-head," and that personal filthiness was one of his principal characteristics.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

He was tall and robust in stature, but all his life suffered from "scald-head"; for a definition of which ailment we may refer the curious to the dictionary.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

"Great Fool", and the newly-founded church is treated allegorically as Luther's daughter Adelheid, who "has a shocking scald-head."

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

'All -- unless perhaps there remain some old scald-head who vexes her husband's heart by running risk of death.'

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

Didst ever see aught uglier than a scald-head, with his beard plucked out?

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

The treatment of favus or scald-head should be commenced by shaving the hair off close to the scalp and washing the head thoroughly with soap and water.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

An ointment, made by stewing the fresh root in lard, is applied in scald-head, in ringworm, and other eruptions and cutaneous diseases, acting as a stimulant.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

All this and the scald-head boy was standing behind the door hearkening to their words until he had understood them all.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855