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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1691
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Struma, n. [e.m.E. struma (1565), L. strūma a scrofulous tumour.] Scrofula, the disease also known as ‘the king’s evil'. — 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1933) 109.
In England the king cures the struma by stroaking, and the seventh son in Scotland
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