Natal boil

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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 []