单词 | black smallpox |
释义 | > as lemmasblack smallpox black smallpox n. [after post-classical Latin variolae nigrae (1662 or earlier)] a severe form of smallpox with haemorrhage into the skin. ΚΠ 1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 63 The Black Pox, the Spotted Feaver, the Griping of the Guts, the Dropsie, and the Sciatica, are the killing Deseases in New-England.] 1696 J. Pechey tr. T. Sydenham Whole Wks. iv. vi. 160 Not long a go a very Virtuous and Noble Lady was committed to my care, who had the dangerous black Small-pox [L. Variolis nigris & mali moris laborantem]. 1753 P. Shaw New Pract. Physic (ed. 7) I. 145 These eruptions are frequently depressed in the middle, and there turn black; from whence the black small-pox. 1871 Med. News & Libr. 29 166/1 In the black smallpox all treatment is useless. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) x. 268 In very severe cases there may be toxic capillaritis with cutaneous purpuric hæmorrhage, the so-called ‘black’ smallpox. 2005 T. Reiss Orientalist (2006) iii. 73 The captains called the disease black smallpox, though Lev thought it could just as well have been the plague. < as lemmas |
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