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Examples
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Doc prescribed a white enema when I had the gleets.
Bernard-Henri Lévy says why Barack Obama will be President. Ann Althouse 2008
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Of course if the fellow who came before you, so to speak, had clap or gleets, you were liable to come down with a dose, but it was safer than the city.
1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984
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"It relieves pain from cancer more powerfully than opium;" employed in ill-conditioned ulcers, gleets, painful uterine discharges, venereal ulcers, epilepsies, and convulsions; it promotes perspiration and urine,
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These are also much recommended in gleets, and in fluor albus, perhaps more than they deserve; they give a violet smell to the urine, and hence probably increase the secretion of it.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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It is useful in the diabætes by exciting the absorbents of the bladder into their natural action; and combined with resin is esteemed in the fluor albus, and in gleets.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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