See also:

• SCROFULA (Lat. for " little sow "), or STJTMA

SCROFULA (See also:

• LAT

Lat. for " little sow "), or STJTMA  , the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general names formerly given to the disease now termed See also:

• TUBERCULOSIS

tuberculosis (q.v.)—" scrofulous," " strumous " and `` tuberculous " being nearly interchangeable . The particular characters associated with " See also:

• SCROFULA (Lat. for " little sow "), or STJTMA

scrofula " have, therefore, varied at different periods . when the real nature of the disease was misunderstood; but essentially what was meant was tuberculosis of the bones and lymphatic glands, with its attendant symptoms, and it is in this sense that the word survives . The old See also:

• ENGLISH

English popular name was " See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king's evil," so called from the belief that the See also:

• SOVEREIGN

sovereign's See also:

• TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch could effect a cure . This superstition can be traced back to the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of See also:

• EDWARD

Edward the See also:

• CONFESSOR

Confessor in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, and to a, much earlier See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France .