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UKScrofula
/skɹˈɒfjʊlɐ/
/skɹˈɑːfjʊlə/
Examples
1. It involved people with scrofula, a lymphatic disease, lining up before their monarch to be healed of their illness.
2. Scrofula was known as the king's evil at the time, because it was considered an evil a king could cure.
3. Also, during this era, it was thought that scrofula was caused by gluttony.
4. And since scrofula lesions sometimes went into spontaneous remission, monarchs were credited with providing miracles when this occurred.
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