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The only thing that I have not been able to find in medical dictionaries, the OED , or even in A Sea of Words , is his use of the word marthambles , which remains unknown to me.
Marthambles is a very fine word that I found in a quack's pamphlet of the late 17th or early 18th century advising a nostrum that would cure not only the strong fires and a whole variety of more obvious diseases but the marthambles too.
In response to Dr. Murray Zimmerman's review of A Sea of Words [XXII,4], I enclose a copy of The Patrick O'Brian Newsletter from March 1994 containing an explanation of the word marthambles: