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White plague   Listen
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White plague  n.  Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.





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"White plague" Quotes from Famous Books



... smell of flowers and the music of running streams, the factor and his friend the cure used to take long tramps up into the highlands, but the cure's state of health was a handicap to him. The factor saw the telltale flush in the priest's face and knew that the "White Plague" had marked him; yet he never allowed the cure to know that he knew. That summer a little river steamer was sent up from Athabasca Lake by the Chief Commissioner who sat in the big office at Winnipeg, and upon this the factor and his friend took many an excursion up ...
— The Last Spike - And Other Railroad Stories • Cy Warman


Words linked to "White plague" :   phthisis, drunkenness, dependance, drug addiction, alcoholism, consumption, narcotic, tuberculosis, inebriation, alcohol addiction, dependence, caffein addiction, heroin addiction, T.B., addiction, habituation, nicotine addiction


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