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Lues   Listen
noun
Lues  n.  (Med.)
1.
Disease, especially of a contagious kind. (archaic)
2.
Syphilis; called also Lues venerea.
Lues venerea, syphilis; called also simply lues.





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... Sarsaparilla. SARSAPARILLA. Root. L. E. D.—This root was first brought into Europe by the Spaniards, about the year 1565, with the character of a specific for the cure of the lues venerea, which made its appearance a little before that time, and likewise of several obstinate chronic disorders. Whatever good effects it might have produced in the warmer climates, it proved unsuccessful in this. It appears, however, from experience, that though greatly unequal to the ...
— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury


Words linked to "Lues" :   pox, Cupid's disease, social disease, venereal disease, venereal infection, chancre, VD, tertiary syphilis, dose


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