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BOROZAIL

Volume 1 · 48 words · 1771 Edition

or the zail of the Ethiopians, a discafe epidemic in the countries about the river Senega. It principally affects the pudenda, but is different from the lucis venerea. It owes its rise to excessive venery: In the men this distemper is called ajab, and in the women afahatus.