单词 | white plague |
例句 | Tuberculosis was called “the captain of the men of death” and “the white plague,” for how it left its victims pale and listless. Southern California’s curious history as the sanitarium capital of America 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The colonies are being killed by a disease of unknown origin — sometimes called white plague or white blotch — first identified off Virginia Key in 2014. Scientists deploy emergency response to save largest corals off Florida 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z By the 1950s, tuberculosis was being treated effectively with antibiotics, and many of the palatial compounds previously devoted to the white plague had shuttered. In Search of Lost Time in Europe’s Sanatoriums 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Once known as the "white plague" for its ability to render its victims skinny, pale and feverish, TB causes night sweats, persistent coughing, weight loss and blood in the phlegm or spit. Europe failing to tackle drug-resistant tuberculosis 2014-03-18T11:52:27Z In a chapter titled “Sheepwrecked,” he calls sheep a “white plague” and “a slow-burning ecological disaster, which has done more damage to the living systems of this country than either climate change or industrial pollution.” Opinion: Pastoral Icon or Woolly Menace? 2014-01-24T22:40:48Z “You can bet there are no ‘white plague’ patients here. The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z So we have the "white plague" of tuberculosis, and so we have innumerable minor plagues of coughs and colds and sore throats. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Against the black plague as well as the white plague it is waging its warfare. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z It is a book which should be in the hands of every tubercular patient, as well as of all those who are interested in stamping out the great white plague. The Riverside Bulletin, March, 1910 Houghton Mifflin Books for Spring and Summer 2011-02-23T03:00:32.690Z Will you join the band of workers who are fighting "the great white plague?" Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks This seemed to be cause for genuine alarm, and I now realized that I was to be a victim of “the great white plague,” vulgarly known as consumption. Confessions of a Neurasthenic The white plague is the only disease the Indian fears or calls sickness. Trail Tales The cost of one dreadnought, wisely spent each year in the fight against tuberculosis, would make the white plague in a single generation a disease as rare as smallpox is to-day. Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association But the surgeon had won a place in the forefront of his profession before the white plague had driven him from New York to this health-giving wilderness. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation She had read that victims of the white plague always talk in this cheerful way about themselves, and she worked on without replying, and this gave him an excellent opportunity to study her closely. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range In other words, in my condition, it was necessary to take precautions against the white plague. In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France For the dread white plague in its early stages there is no medicine and no other climate that can equal the pure,9 healing atmosphere of these deserts. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Not to illiteracy nor to child labour nor to the white plague nor to commercialized vice nor to recurrent unemployment are we, at our best, resigned. Christianity and Progress These conditions in school are indices of homes and houses where tuberculosis is or has been active, and of health boards that are or have been inactive in checking the white plague. Civics and Health Is it a free-for-all we're mixed up in—with our Harry Thaws and our Helen Kellers; our white slavers, our white hopes, and our white plague campaigns; our trunk murders, and our fire heroes? Shorty McCabe on the Job The white plague permitted few native women to become old. Where the Sun Swings North The white plague is a powerful mental stimulant. The Joyful Heart It is alleged that the white plague may be stamped out, if the open cases of tuberculosis are isolated and the rest of the population is taught how to live properly. Applied Eugenics Consumption, or tuberculosis of the lungs, spoken of as the "white plague," was among the first diseases shown to be due to bacteria. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Carol thought at first they were brothers, and so they were,—brothers in the grip of the great white plague. Sunny Slopes The great white plague carried off another of our near neighbors, a fine Scotchman, the father of eight promising boys, when he was only about forty-five years of age. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth It is a term familiar enough in the mountains to which come refugees from the white plague, seeking in the tonic air a healing for their sickened lungs. Destiny Will not destitution and its attendant conditions increase the probability that a given individual will succumb to the white plague? Applied Eugenics On her frail beauty was stamped the sign of the white plague. The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan Had he been granted longer life, he might, like Smolenskin, have chosen the road of a nationalistic-progressive synthesis, but the white plague carried him off in his twenty-ninth year. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) So predisposition advances with the continuity of environment, the one point at which, at least in the case of the so-called white plague, or tuberculosis, an effort against it has been made. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration The white plague seems to love the black victim. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 When Starr thought of that slim, big-eyed, smiling girl in white fighting poverty and the white plague together out there on the rim of the desert, a lump came up in his throat. Starr, of the Desert The house cannot be said to be a place of safety so long as the "great white plague" lurks in every dark corner—tuberculosis, colds, influenza, etc., fasten themselves upon its occupants. The Cost of Shelter Baguio's potential importance as a resort for victims of the great white plague justifies every cent of expenditure necessary to make it readily accessible. The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) Perry and I decided to set a style in architecture that would not curse future generations with the white plague, so we have plenty of ventilation. Pellucidar It's the frail ones who are carried off by the white plague. Harrigan The world was carried away with such an announcement coming from such a man, and it was thoroughly believed that at last "the great white plague," consumption, was to be conquered. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents What wonder the white plague is always with us? The Cost of Shelter It was due to their initiative that the white plague was stamped out from the world. Revolution, and Other Essays |
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