from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A vague and indefinite popular name applied to almost all non-febrile cutaneous eruptions which are common among adults, except perhaps ringworm and itch.
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Scrofula, salt-rheum, and ophthalmia, are among the chief developments at the North.
The salt-rheum carried off every hair from his head, which is as bare as a door-knob.
Took so much sulphur for the salt-rheum, that it carromed on every tooth in his head, and left his mouth as smooth as a new culvert.
[Illustration: Mrs. Foster.] _Gentlemen_ -- I was troubled with eczema, or salt-rheum, seven years.
Having suffered for three years from salt-rheum and after having been unsuccessfully treated by a good physician, I began the use of the "Discovery."
He was dressed in black, and a large white cravat entirely hid his neck and chin; his having been afflicted from childhood with salt-rheum was doubtless the cause of his chin being so completely buried in the neckcloth.