Bright's disease
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Bright's disease
First recorded in 1825–35; named after R. Bright
Example Sentences
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On Valentine’s Day 1884 his wife, Alice, and his mother, Mittie, died hours apart of Bright’s disease and typhoid, respectively.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
Beginning in 1882, Chester Arthur battled a severe case of Bright’s disease which would kill him a few years after he left office.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2019
The economy had already been unaware, a decade prior, that President Chester Arthur suffered from Bright’s disease, a kidney ailment that killed him a few years after he left office.
From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2018
About a year into his presidency, Arthur developed an illness that was to kill him: Bright’s disease, a kidney disorder, which in the nineteenth century was always fatal.
From Time • Aug. 18, 2015
At the present time we know very little more about the dropsical condition associated with chronic Bright's disease than the fact that it constantly occurs where there is a sclerosis or contraction of the kidney.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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