The dry leaves are best for those that have thin rheumsand distillations upon their lungs, causing a cough, for which also the dried leaves taken as tobacco, or the root is very good.
The husks of the Roses, with the beards and nails of the Roses, are binding and cooling, and the distilled water of either of them is good for the heat and redness in the eyes, and to stay and dry up the rheums and watering of them.
It is exceeding good to stop hot rheums that fall down into the eyes, the eyelids being but anointed with it.
There is a syrup made of Horehound to be had at the apothecaries, very good for old coughs, to rid the tough phlegm; as also to void cold rheums from the lungs of old folks, and for those that are asthmatic or short-winded.
Is't not a pity, now, that tickling rheums Should ever tease the lungs and blear the sight Of oracles like these?
The violence of controversy, or the earnestness of enquiry, will often generate inflammations and rheums which are not understood, or assigned to their true cause by the professors of medicine.
Is't not a pity now, that ticklingrheums Should ever tease the lungs and blear the sight Of oracles like these?
Footnote 130: The legend of the Crowland devils had its origin, no doubt, in the "cramps and rheums and shivering agues and burning fevers" or in the hallucination caused by these ailments.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rheums" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
