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What is a scrofula?

What is a scrofula? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pathology) A form of tuberculosis, most common in children, tending to cause enlarged and degenerated lymph glands, especially in the neck, and often chronic, intractable skin inflammation as well.
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In olden time, scrofula, or the 'king's evil', was cured by the touch of the king.
They are sickly, infected with scrofula and own no shacks or even teepees, using only bark and brush.
School principals, in conjunction with medical officers, asked Indian agents for more funds to handle outbreaks of tuberculosis and scrofula.
The children who passed the head there were protected from the scrofula and the grass protects from the fates and the bad spirits.
In 1841 a health resort was opened in Davos for children suffering from scrofula and tuberculosis.
Amongst them were a couple of tutors, with their pupils who had come to be cured of scrofula.

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