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yaws|jɔːz|
[Origin uncertain; identity with pian n. has been suggested (N. & Q. Ser. x. I. 5).]
A contagious disease of tropical countries, characterized by raspberry-like excrescences or tubercles on the skin; also called frambœsia. Also attrib. See also yaw n.2
1679T. Trapham Disc. Health Jamaica ix. 113 Both which quarters of the world [sc. American and African deserts] bring forth the monstrous Yaws as a proper Stock to engraft a new cion of Disease. 1739Huxham in Phil. Trans. XLI. 667 He had frequent impure Conversation with some of the Negro Hussies (who probably laboured under the worst Species of Pox, called the Yaws). 1766W. Hillary Air of Barbadoes 346 Whether it be the Yaws or a sort of itch which the Negroes call in their language Crowcrow. 1804Southey in C. C. Southey Life (1849) II. 257 The yellow fever will not take root in a negro, nor the yaws in a white man. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 502 Paulet, who inoculated healthy negroes with yaws-fluid. Ibid. 506 Syphilis never itches, yaws nearly always does. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xxvii. 430 Yaws virus applied to a pre⁓existing ulcer may..cause it to fungate like an ordinary yaw. |