lungsickness, noun

Forms:
Also with initial capital.
Origin:
South African DutchShow more Translation of South African Dutch longziekte, see long-ziekte.
Pathology
Contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia, a usually fatal disease of cattle; long-ziekte; lungsick noun; lungsiekte.
1852 T. Shone Diary. 10 MayHenry had one of Mr. Woods Cattle die of the Lung sickness.
1856 Cape of G.H. Almanac & Annual Register 230During 1855, the Fingoes of this division have sustained a ruinous loss of cattle by the lung-sickness.
1864 T. Baines Explor. in S.-W. Afr. 8I asked how so many of the oxen had lost their tails, and was told it was the lung sickness..it was usual to inoculate healthy cattle by passing a needle and thread previously steeped in the virus of the deceased lung, through the skin of their tails.
1878 A. Aylward Tvl of Today 35The Englishman..obtains cattle he cares little how or where, and may at any moment be the cause of great loss to his neighbours by contaminating their herds with lung sickness and worse diseases.
c1881 A. Douglass Ostrich Farming 205Lung-sickness is the great bugbear with cattle, as from its terribly communicative nature the farmer never feels safe.
1885 A. Smith Contrib. to S. Afr. Materia Medica 18Lungsickness is undoubtedly caused by poison germs present in the blood.
1896 R. Wallace Farming Indust. of Cape Col. 282Lung-sickness, ‘longziekte’, or pleuro-pneumonia, a highly infectious disease in cattle, is one of the most severe stock scourges in the Colony.
1914 Farmer’s Annual 118Lung-sickness, or Bovine Contagious Pleuro-Pneumonia, is a disease, fortunately, confined exclusively to cattle, which has at various times caused enormous losses to the pastoralists of South Africa.
1940 F.B. Young City of Gold 39Look at the froth on their mouths and the way they fight to breathe. This is no poison. This is the lung-sickness.
1968 F.C. Metrowich Frontier Flames 236In 1855 the deadly lung sickness spread from the Cape Colony across the border with calamitous results, and the simple Africans were only too ready to believe that the hated European was using witchcraft to ruin them utterly.
1972 L.G. Green When Journey’s Over 51You had to guard your oxen against redwater, meltsiekte and lung sickness, and the rinderpest put an army of transport riders out of business.
1987 B. Lau Namibia in Jonker Afrikaner’s Time 122Lungsickness brought the cattle trade to a near standstill.
Contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia, a usually fatal disease of cattle; long-ziekte; lungsick noun; lungsiekte.
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