rheumatisms

In fact, the commonest division is to separate the "rheumatisms" into two great groups: acute, covering the

Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

The bath, they told us, had wrought great cures in several disorders, such as rheumatisms, swelled and contracted joints, and scorbutic ulcers.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

"rheumatisms", and "How long it do be waiting for the Lord"; but today she was too curious about Harold to think of herself.

My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916

Christobal Mendez thought that one should resist sleeping after the midday meal, as "many rheumatisms and even very persistent colds" come from this practice: "it occurs that as soon as one has eaten there comes a great tendency to sleep, but if you stand up, it is soon forgotten and that is beneficial."

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

But so well had Dr. Quackleben improved his numerous opportunities, that the good lady was much reconciled to affairs in general, by the prospect of coughs, rheumatisms, and other maladies acquired upon the occasion, which were likely to afford that learned gentleman, in whose prosperity she much interested herself, a very profitable harvest.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

You boast of having formed him: and of having reasoned him out of his absurd romance and folly — and groaning in your bed over your pains and rheumatisms, satisfy yourself still by thinking, that, at last, that lad will do something to better himself in life, and that the

The History of Pendennis 2006

The result is that the most intense pleasure one can imagine, cannot atone for certain pains, such as the gout, the tooth – ache, etc., acute rheumatisms, strictures, and many other diseases we might mention.

The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. 2004

Keep your head well bundled with a shawl till the latter comes, and so cheat your persecuting neuralgias and rheumatisms.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

I am not worried about it, since it concerns only nerves and rheumatisms, and I have lived seventy years with all that nuisance in my body, and I am still healthy.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

She cures rheumatisms, ruptures, and broken shins in men; green-sickness, obstructions, and fits of the mother, in women; the king's evil, chincough, and chilblains, in children: in short, she has cured more people in and about

The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar