| 释义 |
swine-pox ? Obs.
Also 7 swine's-pox.
1. A name for chicken-pox.
Retained as a synonym in 19th cent. medical works.
1530Palsgr. 278/2 Swyne pockes, farcin. c1550Lloyd Treas. Health R j, The great swyne pokes. 1624Massinger Renegado i. iii, The Swine's-pox overtake you! There's a curse For a Turk, that eats no hog's flesh. 1659–60Pepys Diary 13 Jan., Thence I went to Mrs. Jem, and found her up and merry, and that it did not prove the small-pox, but only the swine-pox. 1676J. Cooke Marrow Chirurg. iv. ii. ix. 739 These they call Cristals, but Country-people call them Swine-Pox, Hen-Pox, &c.
2. An eruptive disease in swine.
1704Dict. Rust. (1726), Swine-pox, an ill sore in Hogs which spreads abroad, and is a very grievous Scab. 1898Syd. Soc. Lex., Swine-pox, a disease in which tubercles come out on the legs and thighs of swine. Around and under each tubercle is highly inflamed tissue. |