PLAGUE

n. Flag. Gr., TrArj-yij. i,at.,plaga. Fr.,plaie, peste. Ger.. Pes*. It., piaga, peste. Sp., plaga. peste. Any destructive pestilence, especially a specific acute and malignant fever, which often prevails in Egypt. Syria, and Turkey, and has occurred epidemically at different times and places in the large cities of Europe. It is attended with nervous disturbance, and usually is accompanied by buboes or swellings of the inguinal or other lymphatic glands, and occasionally with carbuncles, pustules, spots, and pete chias of various colors and distributed in different parts of the body. [D, 1, 74.] Black p. The p. which ravaged Europe in the fourteenth century. [D, 20.] Bubonic p. An epidemic, contagious disease of great virulence which has prevailed in different parts of the world from a very remote period. It begins with slight fever and thirst and within a few hours swellings appear in the axillae or groins or upon the neck. Intense fever and pain are rapidly followed by delirium, unconsciousne , and, in a large majority of cases, death. [" Brit. Med. Jour.," Nov. 3, 1883, p. 886 (D).] Cold p. A malignant form of bilious pneumonia. L" Med. Exam.," iii, 1847, p. 267 (a, 34).] Hunger p. See Relapsing FEVER. Indian p. See PALI. Levantine p. See P. Lungp. The contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle. [" N. Y. Med. Jour.," Aug. 15. 1883, p. 213 (D).] P. in the guts. The term by which malignant cholera was known in England in the seventeenth century. [D, 1.] Swine p. 1. See Hog CHOLERA. 2. A disease of too; U2, blue; U3, lull; U, full; UB, urn: U, like U (German). [s. 281]