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Definition of Rheums
1. rheum [n] - See also: rheum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rheums
Literary usage of Rheums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"It was not considered all this while that the patient, with his cathartic courses,
was grown so weak and feeble, that, in all likelihood, rheums must breed ..."
2. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"It was not considered all this while that the patient, with his cathartic courses,
was grown so weak and feeble, that, in all likelihood, rheums must breed ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon (1824)
"Breakfast preservative against the gout and rheums. To take once in the month at
least, and for two days together, ..."
4. The Practitioner's Handbook of Treatment, Or, The Principles of Therapeutics by J. Milner Fothergill (1887)
"rheums, or simple fluxes from mucous membranes, are far from uncommon in aged
persons. They are associated with the processes known as general decay. ..."
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