英语词汇“throat distemper”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

throat distemper n. chiefly U.S. (now historical) a disease characterized by swelling and ulceration of the throat, fever, and rash, occurring in several epidemics, mainly in New England, in the 18th cent., and having a significant mortality rate, esp. in children.It is generally believed that this disease may have been diphtheria or scarlet fever.

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1736 W. Douglass Pract. Hist. New Epidemical Eruptive Miliary Fever 1 This Distemper did emerge 20th. May, 1735, in Kingston Township 50 Miles Eastward from Boston... It was vulgarly called the Throat Illness, or a Plague in the Throat.]

1738 Boston (Mass.) Gaz. 6 May 3/2 The Throat Distemper, so called, still continues in the Eastern Parts of this Province, and has proved mortal to many of the younger sort.

1836 W. A. Alcott Moral Reformer II. 145 Why, it will cure ‘Throat Distemper or Malignant, Putrid, Ulcerated Sore Throat, Scarlet Fever, Canker Rash, (we should like to know the difference between Canker Rash and one or two of the diseases previously mentioned,) [etc.]’.

1968 Amer. Q. 20 627 (note) Epidemics of smallpox and ‘throat distemper’ occurred in these years.

2001 G. C. Kohn Encycl. Plague & Pestilence (rev. ed.) 234/2 At the time physicians did not understand fully how the ‘throat distemper’ was transmitted.

单词	throat distemper
释义	> as lemmas throat distemper throat distemper n. chiefly U.S. (now historical) a disease characterized by swelling and ulceration of the throat, fever, and rash, occurring in several epidemics, mainly in New England, in the 18th cent., and having a significant mortality rate, esp. in children.It is generally believed that this disease may have been diphtheria or scarlet fever. ΚΠ 1736 W. Douglass Pract. Hist. New Epidemical Eruptive Miliary Fever 1 This Distemper did emerge 20th. May, 1735, in Kingston Township 50 Miles Eastward from Boston... It was vulgarly called the Throat Illness, or a Plague in the Throat.] 1738 Boston (Mass.) Gaz. 6 May 3/2 The Throat Distemper, so called, still continues in the Eastern Parts of this Province, and has proved mortal to many of the younger sort. 1836 W. A. Alcott Moral Reformer II. 145 Why, it will cure ‘Throat Distemper or Malignant, Putrid, Ulcerated Sore Throat, Scarlet Fever, Canker Rash, (we should like to know the difference between Canker Rash and one or two of the diseases previously mentioned,) [etc.]’. 1968 Amer. Q. 20 627 (note) Epidemics of smallpox and ‘throat distemper’ occurred in these years. 2001 G. C. Kohn Encycl. Plague & Pestilence (rev. ed.) 234/2 At the time physicians did not understand fully how the ‘throat distemper’ was transmitted. extracted from throatn. < as lemmas
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