In fact, the commonest division is to separate the "rheumatisms" into two great groups: acute, covering the ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)
The bath, they told us, had wrought great cures in several disorders, such as rheumatisms, swelled and contracted joints, and scorbutic ulcers. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
"rheumatisms", and "How long it do be waiting for the Lord"; but today she was too curious about Harold to think of herself. ❋ Miles Franklin (1916)
Christobal Mendez thought that one should resist sleeping after the midday meal, as "many rheumatisms and even very persistent colds" come from this practice: "it occurs that as soon as one has eaten there comes a great tendency to sleep, but if you stand up, it is soon forgotten and that is beneficial." ❋ Unknown (2008)
But so well had Dr. Quackleben improved his numerous opportunities, that the good lady was much reconciled to affairs in general, by the prospect of coughs, rheumatisms, and other maladies acquired upon the occasion, which were likely to afford that learned gentleman, in whose prosperity she much interested herself, a very profitable harvest. ❋ Unknown (2008)
You boast of having formed him: and of having reasoned him out of his absurd romance and folly — and groaning in your bed over your pains and rheumatisms, satisfy yourself still by thinking, that, at last, that lad will do something to better himself in life, and that the ❋ Unknown (2006)
The result is that the most intense pleasure one can imagine, cannot atone for certain pains, such as the gout, the tooth – ache, etc., acute rheumatisms, strictures, and many other diseases we might mention. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I am not worried about it, since it concerns only nerves and rheumatisms, and I have lived seventy years with all that nuisance in my body, and I am still healthy. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Keep your head well bundled with a shawl till the latter comes, and so cheat your persecuting neuralgias and rheumatisms. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The baths of Aix are very celebrated, and the town is much visited by valetudinarians: they are chiefly recommended in scorbutic humours, colds, rheumatisms, palsies, and consumptions. ❋ Lt-Col. Pinkney (N/A)
Defluxions, rheumatisms, catarrhs are showered down upon me. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
She cures rheumatisms, ruptures, and broken shins in men; green-sickness, obstructions, and fits of the mother, in women; the king's evil, chincough, and chilblains, in children: in short, she has cured more people in and about ❋ George Farquhar (N/A)
Bad colds, incipient fevers, rheumatisms, convulsions, neuralgias innumerable, are washed off in their first beginnings, and run down the lead pipes into oblivion. ❋ Various (N/A)
Rolled in his blankets, he used at night to lay down on the damp ground, to contract rheumatisms and numerous other ailments; while his rations and everything about him were continually saturated; and to make up the catalogue of his troubles, he, on more than one occasion, lost himself in the bush. ❋ Colin Munro (N/A)
Many cases of influenza with high temperatures, also rheumatisms and bad feet, very few wounded. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Answer, all ye pneumonias and diphtherias and rheumatisms! ❋ Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood (N/A)
Gouts, rheumatisms, and even colds, are very rare, and fevers not frequent. ❋ Lt-Col. Pinkney (N/A)
The Fountain of the Capon, sedative and scorbutic, was indicated for rheumatisms of every kind, not excluding sprained limbs, hydrophobia, lycanthropy, black choler, oppilations and procrastinating catapepsia. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)
'They rehearse in summer and get sunstroke; then they rehearse in winter with rheumatisms and lung troubles growing on every bush. ❋ Hesketh Vernon Hesketh Prichard (1899)
