water sickness
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English watersiknesse, wæterseocnesse, from Old English wætersēocnes (“dropsy”), equivalent to water + sickness.
Noun edit
- (rare, archaic) Dropsy.
- 1809, Arthur Edmondston, A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands:
- Water sickness, or general dropsy, also frequently takes place among sheep.
- 1908, British Medical Journal, page 999:
- For water sickness (dropsy), or stones in the bladder, the cure was elder (sambucus, B.P.), for which also it is claimed “all things which are generated on a man's body to loathe, it thoroughly will heal.”