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Whooping cough   /wˈupɪŋ kɑf/   Listen
Whooping cough

noun
1.
A disease of the respiratory mucous membrane.  Synonym: pertussis.






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"Whooping cough" Quotes from Famous Books



... and pair of pantaloons—all of which improvements I am sorry for. Squash Blossom, Blue Eye, Plantain, and Buttercup have had the scarlet fever, but came easily through it. Huckleberry, Milkweed, and Dandelion were attacked with the whooping cough, but bore it bravely, and kept out of doors whenever the sun shone. Cowslip, during the autumn, had either the measles, or some eruption that looked very much like it, but was hardly sick a day. Poor Clover has been a good ...
— Tanglewood Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma^, syntexis^, tetanus, tetter^, tonsillitis, tonsilitis^, tracheocele [Med.], trachoma, trismus [Med.], varicella [Med.], varicosis [Med.], variola [Med.], water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. fatal disease &c (hopeless) 859; dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system. [Disease of mind] idiocy &c 499; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... mix them well together, and when cold, bottle, and cork it tight; take two tea-spoonsful at a time; if it should nauseate, give a smaller quantity. If this produce profuse perspiration avoid going in the air unless well wrapped up. This has been useful in the latter stages of the whooping cough. ...
— Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers • Elizabeth E. Lea

... all cross and sleepy, and dazed at finding themselves in a strange place at an unearthly hour. There was the usual sprinkling of babies, and most of the babies cried. One baby was afflicted with unmistakable whooping cough, and was a source of terror to the mothers of all the other babies. There was a general opening of hand-bags and distribution of buns, biscuits, and sweeties for the comfort and solace of this small fry. Milk was imbibed noisily out of mysterious bottles, ...
— Vixen, Volume III. • M. E. Braddon



Words linked to "Whooping cough" :   respiratory disease, infectious disease, respiratory disorder, respiratory illness



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