wool-sorter's disease
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The result of experiments made by Pasteur with the microbes of that fatal malady of the herbivora, known under the various names of splenic fever, anthrax, wool-sorter's disease, and charbon, encourages this belief.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
This affection is known as wool-sorter's disease, and is almost universally fatal.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
It is also called splenic fever, and is communicable to man, appearing as carbuncle, malignant pustule, or wool-sorter's disease.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
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