Tetter/Herpes

[Lynn Cremona]

Radar
search for Herpes came up with 173 symptoms
Skin Eruptions Herpes (202 remedies)
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Yasgurs:
A broad common term for various skin eruptions, particularly herpes, eczema, pemphigus and psoriasis.
Eating tetter (Lupus),
honeycomb tetter (Favus),
moist tetter (Eczema),
scaly or washerwoman's tetter (Psoriasis, or scaly Eczema)
milky tetter (milkblotch or milk scall),
running tetter (Impetigo),
tarsal tetter ( blear eye, eruptive disease of the eyelids)
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913 + 1828)

Tet"ter , n.

(Old English teter; related to Old High German zittaroh, Sanskrit dadru, Late Latin derbita)
Sanskrit - Dadru = Fungal infection, Zittaroh = Lichen

(Med.) A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes. Honeycomb tetter (Med.), favus. -- Moist tetter (Med.), eczema. -- Scaly tetter (Med.), psoriasis. Tetter berry (Bot.), the white bryony.
Tetter (Page: 1492)
Tet"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tettered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tettering.] To affect with tetter. Shak.
Displaying 1 result(s) from the 1828 edition:
TET''TER, n. [L. titillo.]
1. In medicine, a common name of several cutaneous diseases, consisting of an eruption of vesicles or pustules, in distinct or confluent clusters, spreading over the body in various directions and hardening into scabs or crusts. It includes the shingles, ring-worm, milky scale (crusta lactea.) scald head, &c.
2. In farriery, a cutaneous disease of animals, of the ring-worm kind, which spreads on the body in different directions, and occasions a troublesome itching.
TET''TER, v.t. To affect with the disease called tetters.
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The term Herpes has been around since the 14th century
Greek - Herpien = to creep
Latin - Serpere = to crawl, to move or spread slowly
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[d_rona2000]

Thank you Lynn,
Yes, I had no problem finding Herpes in Radar or other literature - it was just that using Tetter instead I found the right remedy much faster. I was curious about the use of Herpes vs Tetter in the literature as a matter of vocabulary choices and perhaps how that connected with translations or older descriptive terminology.
Fascinating that you found the word 'herpes' has been around since the 14th century.

Thank you again.

Donna

D C Rona, PhD, ND, DHM

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