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† coqueluche Obs.
Also 7 -luch(e)o.
[a. F. coqueluche hood, etc. (obs. It. cocolluccio, f. cocollo, L. cucullus hood, cowl), applied orig. to a kind of grippe or epidemic catarrh, for which patients covered their heads with a coqueluche.]
A name given in the 16th c. to an epidemic catarrh, and afterwards to hooping-cough.
1611Cotgr., Coqueluche..also the Coquelucheo, or new disease; which troubled the French about the yeares 1510, and 1557; and vs but a while agoe. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Coquelucho (Ital.), a kind of violent cough. 1736Bailey Househ. Dict. 209 Coqueluche a cough which most frequently siezes young children..as soon as it siezes them, they fall into fits, and are all in a muck sweat, and several have died of it for want of present relief. 1749T. Short Chronol. Hist. Air, etc., The disease called Coccoluche, or Coccolucio (because the sick wore a cap or covering close all over their heads) came from the island Melite in Africa. 1871Sir T. Watson Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 5) II. 68 It [hooping-cough] has received a variety of names: chin-cough; kink-hoast; coqueluche. |