white plague
Victorian lung disease
White plague is an old name for tuberculosis, from the pallor it caused in sufferers.
The term emerged in the 19th century when the disease killed millions.
It sometimes appears in modern contexts describing other devastating phenomena that spread relentlessly: Coral reefs are succumbing to a white plague of bacterial infection.
Facility for prolonged recovery
- consumptionUsing up of resources
- invalidismChronic state of illness
- rest cureTreatment through prolonged repose
- declineDecrease or refuse
pallor · Keats · Chopin · Brontë · wasting · languishing · creative genius · artistic temperament
Mycobacterial lung disease
- consumptionUsing up of resources
- phthisisPulmonary wasting disease
- mycobacteriumGenus of tuberculosis bacteria
- pulmonaryOf the lungs
bacillus · Koch's bacillus · scrofula · Pott's disease · respiratory · lung disease · night sweats · coughing
Facility for prolonged recovery
- antibioticsBacteria-destroying medicines
- streptomycinAminoglycoside antibiotic for TB
- BCGTuberculosis immunization
- vaccinationAdministered immunity booster
isolation · quarantine · fresh air · pneumothorax · dispensary · DOTS · cure · remission
Disease spread by contact
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
- spreadTo distribute widely
- transmissionSending of information
endemic · incidence · prevalence · mortality · scourge · pestilence · decimation · death toll
sanatorium
Facility for prolonged recovery
- consumptionUsing up of resources
- invalidismChronic state of illness
- rest cureTreatment through prolonged repose
decline · pallor · Keats · Chopin · Brontë · wasting · languishing · creative genius · artistic temperament · La Traviata
tuberculosis
Mycobacterial lung disease
- consumptionUsing up of resources
- phthisisPulmonary wasting disease
- mycobacteriumGenus of tuberculosis bacteria
pulmonary · bacillus · Koch's bacillus · scrofula · Pott's disease · respiratory · lung disease · night sweats · coughing · sputum
sanatorium
Facility for prolonged recovery
- antibioticsBacteria-destroying medicines
- streptomycinAminoglycoside antibiotic for TB
- BCGTuberculosis immunization
vaccination · isolation · quarantine · fresh air · pneumothorax · dispensary · DOTS · cure · remission · drug regimen
contagion
Disease spread by contact
transmission · endemic · incidence · prevalence · mortality · scourge · pestilence · decimation · death toll · mass graves
- Fictional Diseasesgreyscale, zombie virus, Trixie, flare, blood curse
- Old Ailmentsconsumption, dropsy, ague, apoplexy, phthisis
- Old Diseasessmallpox, cholera, typhus, typhoid, dysentery
- sanatoriumssanatorium, patients, tuberculosis, TB, rest cure
white plagueBlack Death
Medieval bubonic plague pandemic
bubonic plague · yellow fever · cholera · smallpox · acute illness
white plagueperfect health
Complete physical wellbeing
robust health · vitality · wellness · vigor · flourishing
white, plague, whitewash, whiten, whitish, whiteness, whiteout, whitened, whitener