† mort-de-chienn.
Obsolete.
Cholera.A name used for the disease by Europeans in India.
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cholera1382
felony1578
mordisheen1598
mort-de-chien1780
cholera1807
Asiatic cholera1827
cholera typhoid1850
pantoganglitis1857
1780 E. Impey in J. F. Stephen Story Nuncomar & Impey (1885) II. 239 (note) I am once or twice a year subject to violent attacks of cholera morbus, here called the mort de chien, and to other disorders.
1807 C. Curtis Acct. Dis. India 46 The mort de chien, or cramp..had been very frequent and fatal among the seamen.
1813 J. Johnson Infl. Trop. Climates (1815) 405 Mort de chien is nothing more than the highest degree of Cholera Morbus.
1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) I. 300 By the name of mort de chien, however, in what way soever derived, it is, according to Mr. Curtis, most generally known in the present day, and particularly at Madras.
1832 New-Eng. Mag. Aug. 147 By the natives of Bengal it is termed mordezim, a term which the French colonial settlers..conveniently metamorphosed into mort de chien.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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