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Praejudicata opinio, invida, maligna, et apta ad impellendos animos in desperationem.
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This could be a sign of a type of skin cancer called lentigo maligna melanoma (it represents from 5 to 15 percent of melanoma cases).
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Lassa fever malaria measles meningitis rift valley fever scarlatina maligna scarlet fever scurvy smallpox sweating sickness toxic shock syndrome tularemia typhoid fever typhus typhus complicated by bubonic plague/dysentery/yellow fever yellow fever complicated by scurvy
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One kind of cassava (Jatropha maligna) is known to be, in its raw state, poisonous, but by boiling it carefully in two waters, which must be thrown off, the poison is extracted and the cassava rendered fit for food.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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History_, Michelet describes the tyranny of nature -- "Natura maligna" -- in
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Femina prima parens exosa, maligna, superba; Femina virgo parens casta, benigna, pia.
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But far from taking always that regular course, the constitution of the patient, the intensity of the epidemy and the virulence of the poison, the treatment and other circumstances influencing the development of the disease, cause several anomalies, from scarlatina simplex to scarlatina maligna, which too often baffles all the resources of the Medical Art. 9.
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= 'So that all would deny that they are the product of your kindly spirit'; for this sense of _ingenuus_ compare Catullus LXVIII 37-38 'quod cum ita sit, nolim statuas nos mente maligna/id facere aut _animo_ non satis
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Of the different forms of scarlatina maligna the most dangerous is the sudden invasion of the nervous system, particularly the _brain_, the
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This is what we call _scarlatina maligna_, or _malignant scarlet-fever_.
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