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Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.

A remedy for all diseases, o

A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken. Blue curls. (Bot.) See under Blue.

Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.

A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.

Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.

Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic. Dartroud diathesis, A morbid condition of the system predisposing to the development of certain skin deseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, and pityriasis. Also called rheumic diathesis, and hipretism. Piffard.

estroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.

A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline. Dunglison.

rration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.

A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. Thomas.

A depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative.

rom the Anglo-Saxon. From these two causes . . . an ancient set of physicians derived all diseases. Arbuthnot.

One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology.

The science which treats of the skin, its structure, functions, and diseases.

Of or pertaining to skin diseases, or their cure.

ly perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.

To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.

A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal. Diabetes mellitus Etym: [NL., sweet diabetes], that form of diabetes in which the urine contains sacchar…