chicken cholera
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chicken cholera
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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This seems to have been accomplished by a poultry graft ring during the administration of the widely known onetime Mayor Hylan, at which time there also chanced to be an epidemic of chicken cholera.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1880 Louis Pasteur, a French microbiologist, concocted a vaccine against chicken cholera after discovering that weakened cholera organisms, while incapable of making chickens sick, would immunize them against the malady.
From Time Magazine Archive
He successfully combatted cattle anthrax and chicken cholera by vaccination.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pasteur hastened to apply his discovery of the attenuation of the virus of chicken cholera to the virus of splenic fever.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
Other fowls promptly died, exhibiting all the characteristic symptoms of chicken cholera.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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