cattle-plaguen.
A highly contagious disease affecting cattle, characterized by running from the eyes, nose, and mouth, fever, cessation of rumination, constipation, then diarrhoea, and emphysema before death; rinderpest.
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1866 Times 1 Jan. Summary 1865 The appearance of the cattle plague in Great Britain..Down to the middle of December 50,000 reported cases of cattle disease had in the great majority of cases ended fatally.
1866 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 182 221 [He] said that I, even in the matter of the cattle plague, set class against class.
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