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单词 foul ward
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foul ward
c. Affected with a disorder characterized by (supposed) putrefaction, or by the production of pus or malodorous excretions; spec. affected with an infectious disease, esp. syphilis or another sexually transmitted disease; also in figurative context. Also: reserved for the isolation and treatment of individuals with syphilis or other infectious diseases (chiefly in foul ward); known or likely to have cases of an infectious disease (cf. foul bill of health n. at Compounds 3). Now historical.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital ward > types of ward
foul ward1734
day ward1801
eye ward1828
casualty ward1836
scarlet ward1888
out-ward1890
observation ward1908
open ward1919
casualty1927
post-op1929
Nightingale ward1930
private1942
surgical1961
SCBU1968
NICU1971
pre-op1991
?1529 S. Fish Supplicacyon for Beggers sig. A1v The foule vnhappy sorte of lepres.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 60 I will through and through Cleanse the foule bodie of th'infected world. View more context for this quotation
1734 (title) Directions and prayers for the use of the patients in the foul wards of the Hospital in Southwark.
1833 United Service Jrnl. Feb. 201 But luckily, it is not in lazzaretti that we are to look for danger; because, when really foul cases do occur, there are few persons of such venal depravity as not to exert their whole power of discipline, were it only from motives of self-preservation.
1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 18 Feb. 393/2 When I stopped beside a bed, and said ever so slight a word to the figure lying there, the ghost of the old character came into the face, and made the Foul ward as various as the fair world.
1893 Board of Trade Jrnl. June 748 Vessels from Cette arriving on or after the 3d June are declared foul. Ports within 165 kilos. of Cette likewise are declared foul.
2012 A. Levene Childhood of Poor 227 (note) Susannah ward was only partially given over to foul patients, and in 1781 became a men's ward.
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