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White plague   /waɪt pleɪg/   Listen
White plague

noun
1.
Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body.  Synonyms: consumption, phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease.
2.
An addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug).  Synonym: drug addiction.






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"White plague" Quotes from Famous Books



... every state in the Union with a half-million dollars with which to save the juvenile delinquents from criminal courts and schools of vice behind prison bars. The cost of one dreadnought, wisely spent each year in the fight against tuberculosis, would make the white plague in a single generation a disease as rare as smallpox ...
— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association

... to be very old, and I wish my bones to be here. I do not wish to remove to any other land, according to what I told my father. When great men say anything to each other, they should have good memories. Why does Colonel White plague me so much about going over the Mississippi? We hurt nothing on this land. I have told ...
— Four American Indians - King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola • Edson L. Whitney

... possible danger of infecting healthy persons. There should also be a large mess hall from which good nourishing food can be served, and plenty of level ground on which tents can be erected during the dry season. Baguio's potential importance as a resort for victims of the great white plague justifies every cent of expenditure necessary ...
— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester



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