tetters

• Old Mizaldus taught that "the fasting spittle of a whole and sound person both quite taketh away all scurviness, or redness of the face, ringworms, tetters, and all kinds [179] of pustules, by smearing or rubbing the infected place therewith; and likewise it clean puts away thereby all painful swelling by the means of any venomous thing as hornets, spiders, toads, and such like." —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• Sickness and tetters, palsies, leprosies, —  The Light of Asia
• Celandine), because curing the skin disease known as tetters; and further, Blackbindweed. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• They have been usefully applied to the scald head and tetters of children. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• Uncleanliness is the second, and often the first, cause of many inconveniences, and even of grievous disorders; it is a fact in medicine, that it brings on the itch, the scurf, tetters, leprosies, as much as the use of tainted or sour aliments; that it favors the contagious influence of the plague and malignant fevers, that it even produces them in hospitals and prisons; that it occasions rheumatisms, by incrusting the skin with dirt, and thereby preventing transpiration; without reckoning the shameful inconvenience of being devoured by vermin--the foul appendage of misery and depravity Most ancient legislators, therefore, considered cleanliness, which they called purity, as one of the essential dogmas of their religions. —  The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature

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