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By far the greater majority of the cases that have come under my observation were of the muscular type, the algic portion of the symptoms approaching those of neuralgia rather than subacute rheumatism.
The Electric Bath George M. Schweig
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Algic languages are a group of languages that are part of the Algonquian family. Edward Sapir first used the term 'algic' after discovering a relationship between some of the languages used by indigenous tribes in the Pacific Northwest.
March 27, 2009