Meaning of marthambles | Babel Free

Definitions

A particular ailment unknown to, and uncurable by, medical science

obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“These are to give⟳ notice⟳, (for the benefit of the public,) that there is newly arrived from his travels, a gentleman, who, after above forty years' study⟳, hath, by a wonderful blessing on his endeavours, discovered, as well the nature as the infallible cure of several strange diseases, which (though as yet not known to the world) he will plainly demonstrate⟳ to any ingenious artist, to be the greatest causes of the most common distempers incident to the body of man. The names of which take⟳ as follow⟳ : / The strong fives / The marthambles / The moon-pall / The hockogrocle.”

“If you can manage⟳ an attack of the Marthambles, we could persuade⟳ one to say⟳ an incantation over you. You would then be anointed with infallible remedies -- say⟳, live⟳ earworms mashed into alcohol.”

“[…] Abse, a member of the afterguard, whose complaint was known as the marthambles at sea and griping of the guts by land⟳, a disease whose cause Stephen did not know⟳ and whose symptoms he could only render more nearly bearable by opiates […]”

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