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'You only say that,' said Miss Marple coldly, 'because you once had nettlerash yourself and couldn't go to a wedding.
A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side Christie, Agatha 1962
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Mrs Bantry, for instance, just said that Heather had been ill in bed and mentioned chicken pox and nettlerash.
A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side Christie, Agatha 1962
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The bath containing soda and starch (p. 141) is the most useful treatment when the nettlerash is general.
The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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In the case of children and people with delicate skins, red or white lumps appear resembling nettlerash.
The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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The little irritating papules of nettlerash from which many children suffer are commonly disregarded by busy, happy children during the day, and even at night hardly suffice to cause disturbance.
The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron
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Antitoxin is an absolutely safe remedy, its ill effects being sometimes the production of a nettlerash or some mild form of joint pains.
The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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I preached mightily to that people; and on Monday I was afflicted with the nettlerash, which tormented me no little for four days.
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As he walked back into the little hall, he heard Daisy's voice -- high, voluble, excited -- giving her stepmother a long account of the scarlet fever case, and how at first Old Aunt's neighbours had thought it was not scarlet fever at all, but just nettlerash.
The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907
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The eyelids often undergo extreme inflammatory and dropsical swelling in urticaria (nettlerash, surfeit) and in the general inflammatory dropsy known as purpura hemorrhagica.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Or may the maledictions of Lousyfear fall like nettlerash on the white friar’s father that converted from moonshine the fostermother of the first nancy-free that ran off after the trumpadour that mangled Moore’s melo — dies and so upturned the tubshead of the stardaft journalwriter to inspire the prime finisher to fellhim the firtree out of which
Finnegans Wake 2006
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