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sleepy sickness
[sleepy a.]
†1. = sleeping sickness 2. Obs.
1803Winterbottom Africans Sierra Leone II. 29 The Africans are very subject to a species of lethargy..; it is called by the Soosoos, Kee Kóllee Kondee, or sleepy sickness. 1903Westm. Gaz. 16 Jan. 7/1 They ran the risk of introducing the ‘sleepy sickness’ into the Colony.
2. Encephalitis lethargica, an often fatal disease widespread between 1916 and 1928, characterized in many of those who survived it by extreme somnolence due to physiological brain damage.
1922Ashby & Wright Dis. Children (ed. 6) 389 Encephalitis lethargica. Sleepy sickness. Epidemic stupor. This disease is more common in adults. 1923Daily Mail 26 Feb. 9 Sleepy sickness (encephalitis lethargica) is attacking prominent people in Winnipeg. 1930A. Christie Murder at Vicarage xiv. 112 There's nothing radically wrong with him... He's had Encephalitis Lethargica, sleepy sickness, as it's commonly called. 1962‘J. Bell’ Crime in our Time iv. 99 Encephalitis lethargica, or sleepy sickness (not to be confused with trypanosomiasis, sleeping sickness, carried by the tsetse fly). 1973Daily Tel. 27 Jan. 11/1 Survivors of the great sleepy-sickness epidemic, which claimed five million victims between 1916 and 1927, lived on in a kind of somnolence for 40 years till this drug awoke them.
3. Vet. A disease of pregnant ewes, provoked by imbalance between the degree of nourishment and the stage of pregnancy, and characterized by somnolence and neuromuscular disturbances; pregnancy toxæmia. Also Comb.
1937Vet. Jrnl. XCIII. 213 In the early stages of sleepy sickness they lie in a perfectly normal recumbent position, but before long..on their side with legs stretched out. 1950D. Gascoyne Vagrant 8 Baa, Baa, O sleepy-sickness-rotted sheep, in your nice fold Are none but marketable fleeces. 1964N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Mar. 546/2 More than 80 per cent of deaths in the ewe flock occur over lambing, when losses due to blood poisoning, bearing trouble, sleepy sickness..and lambing difficulties occur. |