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mal de raquette

[< Cdn F]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a painful state of inflamed joints and muscles affecting snowshoers, caused by undue strain on the tendons of the leg.

See: snowshoe evil,snowshoe fever,snowshoe lameness,snowshoe sickness

Quotations

1821

(Mal de Raquet a Pain in the Nerves of the Leg from the Pressure of the Snow Shoe. The Indians cure this by putting a live Coal on the Part affected and burn it to the Bone.)

1859

The morning I found I had what the voyageurs call mal de racquet.

1955

These induced such a bad attack of mal de racquette that I could hardly walk the next day.