leprosies

White phlegm, which is dangerous if kept in, by reason of the air bubbles, is not equally dangerous if able to escape through the pores, although it variegates the body, generating diverse kinds of leprosies.

Timaeus 2006

He had seen battles, too, in his time in the world, as far afield as Acre and Ascalon and Jerusalem in the first Crusade, and witnessed deaths crueller than disease, and heathen kinder than Christians, and he knew of leprosies of the heart and ulcers of the soul worse than any of these he poulticed and lanced with his herbal medicines.

The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

He had seen battles, too, in his time in the world, as far afield as Acre and Ascalon and Jerusalem in the first Crusade, and witnessed deaths crueller than disease, and heathen kinder than Christians, and he knew of leprosies of the heart and ulcers of the soul worse than any of these he poulticed and lanced with his herbal medicines.

The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

I will here forbeare to write any thing of the benefits which it affordeth against old and inveterate itches, morphewes, leprosies, &c.

Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane

Through some strange quickening of inner life the leprosies of sin were slowly eating the thing away.

The Picture of Dorian Gray 1931

Through some strange quickening of inner life the leprosies of sin were slowly eating the thing away.

The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890

The leprosies, and the crucifixions, and the sorceries, and the rest of it are ugly; but then

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

R. José said, “all seas may purify in flowing, but they are disallowed for issues, and leprosies, and for purifying with them the water of the ashes of the red heifer.”

Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

“The water in them is disallowed for issues and leprosies, or to purify with it as with the water of the ashes of the heifer, since it is not filled in a vessel.”

Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

A sympathetic reader of _The Death-Wake_ would perhaps have expected the leprosies and lunacies to drop off, and the genius, purged of its accidents, to move into a pure transparency.

The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras Thomas T Stoddart 1878