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White plague   Listen
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White plague  n.  Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.





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"White plague" Quotes from Famous Books



... War against tuberculosis. Still another stirring phrase of inestimable value in rousing us from our torpor was that coined by the brilliant and lovable physician-philosopher, Oliver Wendell Holmes: "The Great White Plague of the North." This vivid epithet, abused as it may have been in later years, was of enormous service in fixing the public mind on consumption as a definite, individual disease, something to be fought and guarded against. Before ...
— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson


Words linked to "White plague" :   narcotic, consumption, pulmonary tuberculosis, caffein addiction, habituation, heroin addiction, T.B., tuberculosis, alcoholism, drug addiction, dependency, cocaine addiction, nicotine addiction, alcohol addiction, inebriation, wasting disease, dependance, addiction


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