scrofula

• That touch of holiness once gave the occupant of the throne the supposed ability to cure certain diseases - most famously, scrofula, a terrible skin ailment that was called "the king's evil."
• Her children have diseases of the eyes, skin, glands and bones, and the doctor will apply the term scrofula, when the result is nothing more or less than inherited syphilis. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
• Instances of this description frequently occur in secondary attacks of measles, small-pox, scarlet fever, &c.; and surely it may occur in a disease like scrofula, the nature and treatment of which has "_perplexed the researches and baffled the efforts of the most eminent writers and practitioners of Europe_." —  Observations on the Causes, Symptoms, and Nature of Scrofula or King's Evil, Scurvy, and Cancer With Cases Illustrative of a Peculiar Mode of Treatment
• Syphilis, scrofula, and a quick, galloping consumption have, since the last ninety years, taken off the greater part of the population. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
• The same course of transition from the best of physical conditions to racial deterioration and extinction from the same relative condition of causes--syphilis, scrofula, and phthisis--has been observed among the open-air dwellers of the New Mexican Plains, in the mountains of Arizona, and on the arid wastes of the Colorado Desert, where the appearance of consumption cannot be attributed to housing or incipient civilization, as it is attributed to housing among the Chippeways, Sioux, or Mandans in the regions that formerly formed the Northwest Territory. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance

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