Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition
Rosa Anglica (Author: [unknown])

section 1

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Arthritica is a grief of the binding of the limbs, the which sickness the country folk call ‘the pangs’,762 because it drips to the joints of the members, in the same way that rheum falls, for the passage is narrow through which the matter passes to the members, although there is a kind of rarity therein.