lungsick, adjective and & noun

Origin:
See lungsickness.
obs., Pathology
A. adjective Infected by lungsickness.
1856 T. Shone Diary. 19 MayT. Pike fine’d £2.00 for a lung sick ox.
a1867 C.J. Andersson Notes of Trav. (1875) 247‘Lung-sick’ meat..is easily detected by a yellowish fluid and little pimples of the same colour disseminated throughout it.
B. noun lungsickness.
1880 E.F. Sandeman Eight Months in Ox-Waggon 209The oxen die by the thousand every year from either lung-sick or red-water.
1887 A.A. Anderson 25 Yrs in Waggon II. 69Salt..is a great preventative also against that common sickness the lungsick, which is very fatal to oxen all through South Africa.
1899 Strand Mag. (U.K.) Mar. 270For ‘lung-sick’ had reduced the..team of sixteen [bullocks] to..five.
Infected by lungsickness.
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