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lung sick en · ADJ

(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of lung-sick.
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(alt-of, alternative, archaic, rare, uncountable) Alternative form of lungsickness.
alt of lungsickness
- As for “lung sick,” which is a dreadful form of pneumonia, very prevalent in this country, they [the oxen] had all been inoculated against it. This is done by cutting a slit in the tail of an ox, and binding in a piece of the diseased lung of an animal which had died of the sickness. 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, Bernhard Tauchnitz (publisher, 1886), page 42
- […] a contagious disease broke out among my cattle; […] . Having shot one, the disease proved to be a contagious pleuro-pneumonia, similar to the ‘lung sick’ so prevalent in this neighborhood, affecting hips and shoulder-blades, causing lameness. […] we were surrounded by ‘lung-sick’ cattle dying near our encampment. 1886, Emil Holub, letter, quoted in Philip J. Butler, letter to the editor, in Norman Lockyer (editor), Nature, Volume 35, Number 890 (1886 November 18), Macmillan and Co., page 54
- Lung sickness appeared at Toise River about this time. […] I certainly think that if affected animals with lung sick cannot be slaughtered on recovery they should be branded. 1899, J. H. Shepherd, report, in Report of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and the Assistant Veterinary Surgeons, for the Year 1898, W. A. Richards & Sons, page 84