This was the healing ritual for the King's Evil, the name given to scrofula or struma, the tubercular inflammation of the lymph glands of the neck. |
She was one of those beautiful white-and-pink creatures who are rotten with struma. |
In 808-809 the Khan's soldiers defeated the Byzantine army in the Struma valley, seizing immense loot and much gold. |
There was a lull on the struma, he said, his tired, refined voice concealing the irony. |
They therefore have no significance as far as struma is concerned. |
Laurentius reports that Francis I, when a prisoner in Spain, cured a great number of people of struma. |