11 examples of whitlow in sentences

To CURE A WHITLOW.As soon as the whitlow has risen distinctly, a pretty large piece should be snipped out, so that the watery matter may readily escape, and continue to flow out as fast as produced.

Constant poulticing both before and after the opening of the whitlow, is the only practice needed; but as the matter lies deep, when it is necessary to open the abscess, the incision must be made deep to reach the suppuration.

If I'm a bit late it's because I was kept at home with my son Enoch; he's got a whitlow that's worrying the life out of him, our Enoch has.

Alpine Whitlow-grass.

I believe many dilettante authors do cocker themselves up into a great jealousy of anything that interferes with what they are pleased to call their fame: but I should as soon think of nursing one of my own fingers into a whitlow for my private amusement as encouraging such a feeling.

In common whitlow of the finger, how the arteries of the arm, the brachial in particular, throb, is well known.

She afterwards married Will Whitlow, another apprentice, who had great expectations from an old uncle in the Grenadiers; but he left all to a distant relation, Kit Cable, a midshipman aboard the Torbay.

Old man Balm Whitlow can tell you all about the way they held church.

When old man Whitlow came out from slavery, he continued to preach.

They went on thinking thinking that the sufferer had scratched his thumb, or that it was singular that "all the servants" had "whitlows," or that something was "much about this year; there is always sickness in our house."

This is a favourite mode of thoughtleading not to inquire what is the uniform cause of these general "whitlows," but to stifle all inquiry.

11 examples of  whitlow  in sentences