Natal boil

English

Noun

Natal boil (plural Natal boils)

1. Synonym of Aleppo boil
   • 1877, Mary Anne Barker, A Year's Housekeeping in South Africa, page 115:

     Indeed, nothing frightened me so much as what I heard when I first arrived about Natal sores and Natal boils. Everybody told me that ever so slight a cut or abrasion went on slowly festering […]