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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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The children who passed the head there were protected from the scrofula and the grass protects from the fates and the bad spirits.
She also uses some uncommon remedies such as geranium for colds and columbine for scrofula.
These coins were handed out as talismans by the monarch at a special ceremony to sufferers of the skin disease, scrofula.
One attendee looked dangerously close to asking if she could heal his scrofula.
They are sickly, infected with scrofula and own no shacks or even teepees, using only bark and brush.
It brought a sigh from the crowd and a rush to dip handkerchiefs in the royal blood, for use against scrofula.

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