"Scurfy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... misery commenced. Burning heat, attended with constant thirst, then began to torment me from morning till night; my skin became scurfy; the skin of my feet and hands peeled off; my tongue was always furred; a feeling of contraction in the bowels was continual; my eyes were strained and discolored, and I had unceasing headache. But internal and external heat was ...
— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day
... that *suck* the plant juices from the leaf or bark; such as the San Jose scale, oyster-shell, and scurfy scales, the cottony maple scale, the maple phenacoccus on the sugar maples, and the various aphides on ...
— Studies of Trees • Jacob Joshua Levison
... kept, from the first, totally uncovered, the hair grows more rapidly, dandruff and other scurfy diseases rarely attack the scalp; catarrh, snuffles, and other similar complaints, and above all, dropsy in the head, seldom show themselves; and the period of cutting teeth, that most dangerous period in the life of an infant, is passed over with ...
— The Young Mother - Management of Children in Regard to Health • William A. Alcott |
