Contagious pleuropneumonia is an acute contagious disease of horses manifesting itself either as a croupous pneumonia or a pleuropneumonia with complications in the form of serous infiltrations of the subcutaneous tissues and tendons. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
The doctors talk of the croupous form of pneumonia, and of some other form -- I do not know the difference -- but I do know that this man had a great pain in his chest, and that his head ached, and that he had alternate arctic chills and flames of fever. From Wordnik.com. [A Man and a Woman] Reference
Not only did he teach at the Army and Columbian University Medical Schools, serve on examining boards, attend medical meetings, consult with other doctors when his specialized knowledge was needed, but he worked in his laboratory on croupous pneumonia, erysipelas, abdominal typhus, malaria and other subjects, and published his observations in scientific journals. From Wordnik.com. [Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]] Reference
The croupous form is the most common. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Here, also, belong croupous pneumonia, the allied disease erysipelas, certain puerperal processes, and finally, parotitis epidemica, or mumps. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
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