rheumaticaladj.

1655 Duchess of Newcastle Worlds Olio 11 They that think to ripen their own wit by the heat of anothers imagination, tastes like fruit that is ripened by the chimnie, and not by the natural heat of the Sun, which gives it a rheumatical taste.

1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) iv. 78 Medicins impregnated with alchalized Salt, such as Corals, Pearls, Cuttle bone, Harts horn, Ivory, Powders of Shells, and the like, are very commonly used, not onely against Rheumatical Distempers, but also in a Diabetes.

1697 T. Brown in Familiar Lett. I. 200 My Rheumatical Person, as such, will be allow'd some Moisture, and Gray Heirs only tell you, the Sap is gone down to the Root.

1702 R. Pitt Craft Physick Expos'd 154 An Acrid Collection of Humours..causing the Rheumatical Pains.

1756 R. Colborne Compl. Eng. Dispensatory 251/2 This is calculated for that sort of Scurvy peculiar to fat and corpulent People, who abound with cold Humours, and are disposed to be rheumatical.

1804 D. Irving Lives Sc. Poets II. 478 It [sc. sea-bathing] indeed had the effect of alleviating the rheumatical pains which he had felt in his limbs; but this flattering symptom was immediately followed by a fresh attack of fever.

1842 T. Andrew Cycl. Domest. Med. & Surg. 398/1 Nervous and rheumatical affections set in.

1892 Nature 21 July 270/1 After the swelling had gone I suffered very much from rheumatical pains.

1921 A. Huxley Crome Yellow 135 The Lady Filomena had lost her voice and Sir Hercules was grown too rheumatical to play the violin.

1969 Jrnl. Royal Coll. Gen. Practitioners 17 Suppl. No. 3. 29 (title) Rehabilitation and resettlement of patients suffering from rheumatical disorders.

2008 Patient Educ. & Counselling 73 547/1 The main focus of the case managers' work is on respiratory diseases, diabetes mellitus.., mental diseases, paraplegia, rheumatical diseases, apoplexia, and serious accidents.