Word: scrofula
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tumor. Though it is seldom seen today, a particularly common tumor among peasants of the Middle Ages, who lived close to their herds, was tuberculoma. This was often caused by the bacilli of bovine tuberculosis-the same bacteria that made the ruff fashionable to hide the swellings of scrofula ("the king's evil"). Since Joan's right-side perception was affected, the tumor would be in the left hemisphere of her brain...
...when they did, they consigned them to the women's wards. Commonest child's complaint was diarrhea. In those days, it was often fatal, frequently spread to patients throughout the wards. Innumerable youngsters were victims of malnutrition diseases such as rickets and scurvy, human or bovine tuberculosis (scrofula), malformations or infections of the bones, but few hospitals were equipped to deal with these maladies. Then three years after the Civil War had ended, a young veteran of Gettysburg returned to Boston from a postwar refresher tour of Europe's medical centers with a bold idea. To four...
...Shoemaker's Wife. Paris was used to such claims; the fate of the young Dauphin had long been shrouded in mystery and rumor. In 1795, the revolutionary government, which held him prisoner, had officially announced his death from scrofula at the age of ten, but the stories of witnesses who claimed to be present at the death varied widely. Some years later a shoemaker's wife, who had been charged with the care of the royal prisoner, swore on her deathbed that young Louis had been spirited away and that another boy had been buried in his grave...
...Francisco newspaper, and became a Republican-hating Democrat. Frost remembers his father as "a wild man" who gave him many a whipping, remembers eating many of his lunches in saloons while his father talked politics at the bar. Young Robert was nervous, could not sleep, suffered from biliousness and scrofula, was more often out of school than in. "I wasn't considered a very good bet," he says...