A disease: mugwumpus: a puffy face, swollen cheeks disfigured with lumps of raspberry red, and green bruises beneath the fingernails
This man, the ill-fated Blogus Mogus, he whom they supposed to be properly named Oberon, was showing all the typical signs of mugwumpus: a puffy face, swollen cheeks disfigured with lumps of raspberry red, and green bruises beneath the fingernails. In advanced stages of the disease, the fingernails either fell off or thickened into thick claws. Hector the Pig, the notorious tyrant of the feudal period, had suffered very badly from mugwumpus. Suffering had done nothing to sweeten his disposition, and, when his own fingernails had hardened to claws, he had used them to tear off people's faces.
'Who do we know who treats mugwumpus?' said Atlanta. 'For that matter, can it be treated?'
'I don't know,' said Heineman. [NoP Ch2]