Yesterday your daughter took a medicine intended to bring out her disease, the /plica polonica/; until that horrible disease shows itself on the surface you cannot see her.
Balzac's description of /plica polonica/ does not agree with that given in English medical dictionaries and cyclopedias.
The chute-like effect of the plica cricopharyngeus.
Illustrating the hiding of a coin by the folding downward of the plica cricopharyngeus.
Various low plants may grow in the trichoma, the whole being known as plica palonica.
There is little doubt that the plica is to be attributed to a specific virus, which pervades the whole system unless successfully treated.
Other historians assert that the plica originated in the East; such is the opinion of Stabel, Spreugel, and other writers.
It continued sick for a considerable time, and, on its convalescence the plica broke out in its entire coat.
Hercules de Saxonia and Thomas Minadous, in 1610, speak of plicaas a disease already long known.
If there was no exudation the disease was calledplica sicca.
Alarmed or taught by such occurrences, the common people often went about all their lives with the plica gradually dropping off.
The hair was matted and stuck together in a variety of ways, so as to resemble ropes (plica multiformis).
Briefly these are:-- (1) The plica semilunaris as a vestige of the nictitating membrane of certain birds.
Plica has always been more frequent on the banks of the Vistula and Borysthenes, in damp and marshy situations, than in other parts of Poland.
Sometimes these masses united together and formed one single thick club like the tail of a horse (plica caudiformis).
Plica began after an attack of acute fever, with pains like those of acute rheumatism in the head and extremities, and possibly vertigo, tinnitus aurium, ophthalmia, or coryza.
The Ephemerides contains the account of a woman who had hair from the mons veneris which hung to the knees; it was affected with plica polonica, as was also the other hair of the body.
