rheumatiz

She had severe "rheumatiz" and wrapped Sunbeam bread wrappers around her lower legs to keep down the swelling.

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She had severe "rheumatiz" and wrapped Sunbeam bread wrappers around her lower legs to keep down the swelling.

Christmas Spirits 2008

The "rheumatiz" has much to answer for all through English country-sides, but it never played a scurvier trick than in laying thee by the heels, when thou wast yet in a green old age.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

Her old parents could help but little, for the "rheumatiz," which attacks age in the mountains, had cramped and knotted their limbs, and they were fit for nothing except in fine dry weather.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

Three years ago she made them all a complete outfit, but the "rheumatiz" has been getting all the spare money since then, so there has been nothing to sew.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

The winter had tried the last pair to their utmost endurance and the "rheumatiz" had long since got the last dollar, so she came with her chubby little sunburned legs bare.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

The days of the marsh ague were over, but the dread "rheumatiz" still twisted comparatively young bones.

Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

She took me into favor at once, told me all about her "rheumatiz," and "de spiration" of her heart, and kissed my hand fervently when I went away.

The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865, 1908

Also, that she had some kind of rheumatiz in her left shoulder; but she'd rather be a Christian Scientist and fool herself than pay a doctor to do the same.

Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903

To be sure, they give it hot, but we do not object to that, since 'water hot ne'er made a sot,' and it cures dyspepsia and all forms of indigestion as whisky never did, but only made believe to; while its external use as a fomentation is banishing alcohol even for old folks '' rheumatiz 'where, as a remedy, it would be likely to make its final stand.

Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890