List of Ailments on shop
Does anyone know what some of these ailments are? Most are familiar but what are "whites" or "thrumps"?
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Does anyone know what some of these ailments are? Most are familiar but what are "whites" or "thrumps"?
Velvet Voice
The online Webster defines "thrumps" as a series of loud rhythmic noises, but in this context, perhaps a nasty combination of "thrush" and mumps?
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Stedman's Medical Dictionary lists "whites" as a colloquialism for leukorrhea or blennorrhea.
Thrumps isn't listed but I suspect it could be a spelling variation of "thumps," which is basically hiccups.
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I was able to google all the ailments except for hollow heels and thrumps. Hollow heels may have been a term for high arches, but that's just a guess.
Wobbles is a neurological condition in horses that effects the hind quarters, but it may also have been used to describe a similar human ailment.
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