form of scrofula which attacks the glands in the neck, behind the ears, and under the chin. Starts as hard indolent tumours which soon rupture and become ulcers that discharge pus.
struma, touching by Royal Person was to have cured this (see scrofula)
a form of tuberculosis, scrofula; supposedly cured by the touch of the reigning monarch
A popular name for scrofula. The name originated in the time of Edward the Confessor, with the belief that the disease could be cured by the touch of the king of England. Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands.