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• n  a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands

• This same Josselyn attributed to the Indians "the great pox" (syphilis), consumption of the lungs, the King's Evil (scrofula) and falling sicknessall of which happened to be .
• Tuberculosis was endemic, and so were scabrous skin diseases of every kind: abscesses, cankers, scrofula, tumors, eczema and erysipelas.
• That touch of holiness once gave the occupant of the throne the supposed ability to cure certain diseases most famously, scrofula, a terrible skin ailment that was called "the .

• struma
• king's evil

Quotes

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• Sir Menzies Campbell in Scotsman
  People in Europe want to touch the hem of the king and get cured of scrofula,said Sir Menzies Campbell, former leader of the Liberal Democrats and member of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
• Derek Walcott in Trinidad & Tobago Express
  Walcott praised Sir Vidya as "our finest writer of the English sentence", but whose beautiful prose is "scarred by scrofula", not least in his "repulsion towards Negroes".