BOROZAIL, or the zeal of the Ethiopians, a disease epidemic in the countries about the river Senegal. It principally affects the pudenda, but it is different from the lues venerea. It owes its rise to excessive venery: in the men this distemper is called asab, in women assabatus.
BOROZAIL
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