"Chilblains" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... telegram which said that his first-born was suffering from chilblains and was on the point of death. He could not even wait to say ...
— The Adventures of Pinocchio • C. Collodi—Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini
... but that was all. It was no use sending for doctors—no use doing anything. Her own delicate hand when she laid it on the baby's heart was, as it were, blistered with cold. The next morning she found it covered with chilblains. ...
— A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others • Various
... Chilblains.—These occur in hands and feet where the circulative power is feeble, either from weakness or from tight pressure of boots or gloves. The cold has power, owing to lack of circulation, to partly kill the skin, which thus becomes painfully inflamed, ...
— Papers on Health • John Kirk
... and deep that, as the letter dropped from my hand, I felt suddenly a stranger to all the present conditions of my existence, wholly ill at ease and out of place amid the familiar surroundings of my study. I became, in short, the gangling farmer-boy my aunt had known, scourged with chilblains and bashfulness, my hands cracked and sore from the corn husking. I sat again before her parlour organ, fumbling the scales with my stiff, red fingers, while she, beside me, made canvas mittens ...
— Youth and the Bright Medusa • Willa Cather
... last attack of chilblains," said Harry, desperately. "They hent to my wed—I mean they went ...
— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish
... person in a fit of the falling sickness, a ring of this metal put on the ring finger is an immediate cure. A little yarrow and mistletoe put into a bag and worn upon the stomach, prevents ague and chilblains. A powder made of the common mistletoe, given in doses of three grains at the full of the moon to persons troubled with epilepsy, prevents fits; and if given during a fit it will effect an immediate and permanent cure. A woman with ...
— Folk Lore - Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century • James Napier
... his lantern at the end of the dormitory and stood there warming his hands, which were covered with chilblains. His face, though dirty, was so honest and kindly, that Jack's heart warmed toward him. As he stood there the negro looked out into the garden. "Ah! the snow I the snow!" ...
— Jack - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
... are more successful, but the popular renown of the specific survives in spite of all, probably thanks to a simple accident of identity between the name of the remedy and that of the infirmity: the Provencal for "chilblain" is tigno. From the moment when the chilblain and the nest of the Mantis were known by the same name were not the virtues of the latter obvious? ...
— Social Life in the Insect World • J. H. Fabre |
