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distemper

[dis-tem-per] / dɪsˈtɛm pər /


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“No Physician has either Head or Hands enough to attend a Thousand Patients...I wish you had all come to Philadelphia, and had the Distemper here.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2020

The London Fields Distemper Council made public through its Research Committee an elaborate plan for finding a cure for the disease.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Rhodes Farm, Middlesex England, Sir Theodore Cook, chair man of the Field Distemper Committee stated tentatively that ; serum had been devised to cure dogs of distemper.

From Time Magazine Archive

I must also take Notice of another dangerous common Practice; which is that of purging, or vomiting a Patient, at the very Beginning of a Distemper.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Whatever solid Food is taken corrupts, and proves a Source of Putridity, which adds nothing to the Strength of the Sick, but greatly to that of the Distemper.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)




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