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"Yaws;" and Jim broke into a trot which he kept up until he reached his own porch.
The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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"Yaws," he said, with a silly grin, looking at the coin and then clasping it tight; "what do yuh warnt me to dew?"
The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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Yaws is one form of treponematosis, which also includes the diseases pinta, venereal syphilis, and endemic syphilis or bejel.
Yaws Origin 1996
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Scabies Yaws Provide a greater volume of water, facilitate access, and encourage its use Leprosy
Chapter 7 1979
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Experimental Investigation on _Framboesia tropica_ (Yaws).
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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[165-1] This seems to be the earliest description of Yaws (_Framboesia_) in these islands.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 Edward Edwards
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Yaws became serious, but that was a trifle as compared with dysentery; and pleurisy, pneumonia, fever and dropsy had also to be reckoned with.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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Yaws may be defined as an endemic, specific, and contagious disease, characterized by raspberry-like nodules with or without constitutional disturbance.
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Yaws is derived from a Carib word, the meaning of which is doubtful.
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Yaws may be defined as an endemic, specific, and contagious disease, characterized by raspberry-like nodules with or without constitutional disturbance.
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