tussis

How to use tussis in a sentence

• This is perhaps the only special reference to tussis as epidemic until the influenzas of the seventeenth century.

  A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) | Charles Creighton

• The earliest references to it are in the medieval Latin chronicles under the name of tussis or cough, or in some periphrasis.

  A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2) | Charles Creighton

• Deeper he bent over his books, racked by the stone (calculus): bronchitis (tussis) attacked him; but still he refused to rest.

  The Browning Cyclopdia | Edward Berdoe

• But his body grew heavy with the increasing ills of extreme age, and the hard breathing of tussis.

  The Mediaeval Mind (Volume I of II) | Henry Osborn Taylor

• Name from tussis, a cough, for which the plant is a reputed remedy.

  The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States | Asa Gray