Bothor

Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A skin-condition term with two stated descriptive equivalents.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 11; facsimile PDF page 339.

Historical Definition

Bothor are wheals or pustules.

Meaning

The dictionary gives a pair of visible skin descriptions rather than a cause or a named systemic illness. Both alternatives should remain in the modernised definition. A historical author may use the word broadly or qualify the lesions more closely; this entry alone does not supply that distinction.

The form is plural, which may help a reader recognize the word’s role in a list of signs. Its function is descriptive. A modern diagnosis, organism or treatment should not be inferred simply because one present-day skin condition can also involve pustules.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 11; facsimile PDF page 339 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Bothor