| 单词 | country distemper |
| 释义 | > as lemmascountry distemper country distemper n. now historical and rare = country disease n. (a). ΚΠ 1690 S. Mullenaux Jrnl. Three Months Royal Campaign Ireland 26/2 The Watry Season would undoubtedly bring the Country Distemper on our Army, and so more dye of it than by the hand of the Enemy. 1711 J. Stevens New Coll. Voy. & Trav. 18 This Country-Distemper, or Yawes, is begun or continu'd with a Gonorrhæa; yet is attended with nocturnal Pains in the Limbs..and several Ulcers. 1749 W. R. Chetwood Gen. Hist. Stage 41 (note) The Country Distempers are, the Dry-gripes, and Tenesmus, which generally ends in a Sanguinary Flux: Most New-comers, for want of a proper Regimen, fall into it. 1893 Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. 37 36 Other deaths followed in quick succession, some from scurvy and some from the ‘country distemper’, the fatal sign of which was a violent purging. 1970 Bull. Hist. Med. 44 571 One of the most troublesome diseases of Colonial America was that mysterious and debilitating malady known variously to early American physicians as ‘lame distemper’, ‘country distemper’, and yaws. 2006 O. Reiss Blacks in Colonial Amer. iv. 50 Yaws, the ‘country distemper,’ was..seen most commonly in the first generation of slaves from Africa. < as lemmas |
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