whitlows

This is a favourite mode of thought – leading not to inquire what is the uniform cause of these general "whitlows," but to stifle all inquiry.

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 1860

Hence it is asserted, that if a man is a stealer of gold from a Brahmin, he is doomed to have whitlows on his nails; if a drinker of spirits, black teeth; if a false detractor, fetid breath; if

Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. Dr. John Scudder

The root is sometimes applied by country folk to whitlows, but this has proved an unsafe proceeding.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

It equally relieves whitlows; and will heal punctured wounds, if arnica, or the Marigold, or St. John's Wort is not indicated, or of use.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

The bruised plant has been applied externally for healing ulcers, burns, whitlows, and for the mitigation of swollen piles.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

As well, it was noted that several members had attacks of "boils" during the voyage southward; in Adelie Land during 1912 there were two instances of acute abscesses on the fingers (whitlows) and one jaw abscess.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

Men whose dexterity as operators or almost divinatory skill in diagnosis are constantly needed for difficult cases, are poulticing whitlows, vaccinating, changing unimportant dressings, prescribing ether drams for ladies with timid leanings towards dipsomania, and generally wasting their time in the pursuit of private fees.

The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors George Bernard Shaw 1903

Arabica, says that an application of the bruised leaves acts as a specific in the disease termed by the Arabs bulla, and, applied with hog's lard, cures whitlows.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

They went on thinking – thinking that the sufferer had scratched his thumb, or that it was singular that "all the servants" had "whitlows," or that something was "much about this year; there is always sickness in our house."

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 1860

When this takes place, she revenges herself by plagues of sore-eyes, whitlows and agnails.

Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858