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_Emerods_ (No. 18. p. 282.) pro _hæmorrhoids_. "Golden emerods" would
be an absurdity if _emerod_ meant "emerald." "The Philistines made
golden emerods," i.e. golden images of hæmorrhoids (diseased veins),
in commemoration of being delivered from plagues, of which such states
of disease were concomitant signs.