| 单词 | white scourge |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite scourge white scourge n. now rare (more fully great white scourge) = white death n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > tuberculosis decline1783 tubercle1795 tuberculation1822 tuberculization1823 tubercularization1839 tuberculosis1839 tuberculocele1858 white plague1860 tuberculid1868 tuberculoderma1881 white scourge1895 tubercule1901 white death1901 T.B.1912 1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 35 It is time that the veil should be drawn from the loathsomeness of ‘the great white scourge’, that the false sentiment which poetry and prose have thrown over infection, blood poisoning, suppuration, and decay should be dissipated. 1949 Public Health 63 20/1 Only by pursuing the most zealous and intensive campaign with chest physician, paediatrician and medical officer of health playing their respective roles can we hope to eradicate the ‘White Scourge’ from our midst. 2001 J. White London in Twentieth Cent. vi. 233 TB, the ‘White Death’ or ‘White Scourge’ of the Edwardian years, which in all its ghastly guises killed almost 10,000 Londoners in the County in 1906, had become less pernicious by 1936, though still accounting for over 3,000 deaths. < as lemmas |
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