chilblains

How To Use chilblains In A Sentence

• The rapid change in temperature can lead to chilblains and dry skin.
• January, February, and March bring a great cold, and inhumane conditions of food and weather for the girls - long marches to church in the blistering cold wind, swollen and flayed fingers and feet, and chilblains on the hands.
• A few years back I ignored the need for winter socks and got a mild attack of chilblains, the first I've had since I was a child and, if I can so engineer it, the last I shall ever have.
• In fact, some of it is downright worth the chilblains.
• Elderly people, whose circulation is less efficient than it used to be, people who don't take enough exercise, and those suffering from anaemia, are also susceptible to chilblains.
• As a cream or ointment, it can be applied directly to bruises, sprains, strains, chilblains or painful varicose veins - but only on unbroken skin.
• He carried on working to the end - dressed in the high starched collar and cravat of his youth and dispensing old-fashioned remedies, medicines, and cures which he prepared himself, for ailments as diverse as bronchitis and chilblains.
• The best approach to chilblains is to avoid developing it by limiting exposure to cold, dressing warmly and covering exposed skin. Health News from Medical News Today
• Tartars are affildled with ulcers, made by the cold, of the nature of what we call chilblains, but greatly worfe; and m Poland and Lithuania there rei {ns a peculiar difeafc called the plica poknlcaf fo terribly painful and pflfenHve, that fcarce any thing can be thought oi worie. Encyclopædia britannica;
• Once upon a time David Duckham, a genuine genius, stood on the wing at Twickenham and could count chilblains in bigger numbers than passes. Six Nations 2011: No need to turn tank-stoppers into ballerinas | Eddie Butler