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Example sentences for "bubonic"

Lexicographically close words:
bubbles; bubbling; bubbly; bubo; buboes; bucanier; bucaniers; buccal; buccaneer; buccaneering
  1. As a matter of fact, it is difficult to be sure what was the exact pathology of a number of the grievous ailments which troubled our country in the Middle Ages, but from all accounts bubonic plague and true leprosy were amongst them.

  2. This was immediately confirmed by Yersin, and further proved by the isolation in artificial media of a pure culture of a bacillus able to cause the specific disease of bubonic plague.

  3. The boom derived its name from the outbreak of bubonic plague in Brazil, as a result of which the ports of that country were quarantined.

  4. And in those cases where neither coma nor delirium came on, the bubonic swelling became mortified and the sufferer, no longer able to endure the pain, died.

  5. Now some of the physicians who were at a loss because the symptoms were not understood, supposing that the disease centred in the bubonic swellings, decided to investigate the bodies of the dead.

  6. The bubonic plague, extending in Luzon, and appears in other islands of the Archipelago.

  7. Rumours of the bubonic plague changed that in an instant, and Jean became overnight the dangerous carrier of the most deadly germs, unfit for the society of humans and to be driven from the door.

  8. This particular spring an epidemic of bubonic plague broke out in San Francisco.

  9. The cat was saved, and by the following morning the bubonic scare transformed itself into a comedy.

  10. The implication was successful--Jean, the tree and the bubonic plague became as trifles compared to an infectious taxi.

  11. Some two weeks before our contemplated start two or three cases of bubonic plague had been discovered in the bazaar, and as a consequence Nairobi was quarantined.

  12. Owing to an outbreak of bubonic plague, and consequent quarantine, we had recruited our men outside Nairobi, and had sent them, in charge of C.

  13. The horrors of war had been increased by the deadly bubonic plague which appeared in Europe early in 1348.

  14. To-day the truth is being told about bubonic plague in the public health reports, and, I believe, in the newspapers.

  15. Early in 1900 the first case of the present bubonic plague onset appeared in San Francisco's Chinatown.

  16. To-day California is paying for her sins of eight years ago in suppressing honest reports of bubonic plague, when she should have been suppressing the plague itself.

  17. Of course, the Commission found bubonic plague, because it was there for any one to find.

  18. Newspapers, Politicians, and the Bubonic Plague But if it is bad in the South, it is worse in the West.

  19. In the San Francisco panic eight years ago, when bubonic plague beset the city, it was the Marine Hospital Service which restored confidence: and a Service man has been there ever since as the city's chief adviser.

  20. There Is No Bubonic Plague in San Francisco.

  21. Other diseases carried by insects are malaria and yellow fever, each by a special species of mosquito; typhus fever, by lice; and bubonic plague, by rat fleas.

  22. What would you have done if you had been stricken with the vomito or berriberri or the bubonic plague?

  23. The steamer that we were to take was forbidden to land at Savanilla, in consequence of having stopped at Trinidad, which was then reported to be infected by the bubonic plague.

  24. It is often protracted by prolonged suppuration of the bubonic enlargements.

  25. Plagues and epidemics, smallpox, yellow fever, bubonic plague, typhus and tetanus followed one another in regular succession.

  26. Otto Schoebl--Notes Concerning the Bubonic Plague in Hong Kong, by Dr.

  27. Moreover every other year shows a marked severity in the epidemics of human bubonic plague.

  28. Juan Luna is declared infected and is quarantined this date, for Bubonic Plague.

  29. It must be remembered that septicaemic, bubonic and pneumonic plague are all manifestations of systemic infection with B.

  30. The premises 1364 Sande are hereby declared in Quarantine for Bubonic Plague by order of the Director of Health.

  31. Suspicion arising, an autopsy was ordered and a pronounced case of bubonic plague was disclosed postmortem.

  32. At autopsy, typical bubonic plague (cervical) was disclosed, and several guinea-pigs inoculated from the spleen and bubo died from the same disease.

  33. The prevalence of awful scourges, such as cholera and bubonic plague, is another evil which the new China must conquer.

  34. Shanghai, as I write this, is just recovering from a bubonic plague scare.

  35. The disease was discovered a year ago by Gerhold, at the Alt-Moabit, and is closely allied to bubonic plague.

  36. The bacteria of anthrax, glanders, and bubonic plague must be sown in various parts of Russia, Gregory.

  37. The boils which were one of the plagues in Egypt were apparently the bubonic plague.

  38. Bubonic plague, of a fatal and contagious nature, first broke out in Bombay City in September 1896, and, despite all the efforts of the government, quickly spread to the surrounding country.

  39. Suppose that New York City should suddenly be invaded by the bubonic plague or yellow fever.

  40. He has definite information with regard to Bubonic plague and the filaria medinensis.

  41. Or what could be stranger than the tracing of the bubonic plague, which has cost literally billions of human lives, to a parasite in the blood of fleas which live on the bodies of rats!

  42. In 542 Constantinople was devastated by a terrible pestilence, the bubonic plague, that has lost none of its terrors in fifteen hundred years.

  43. One of the latest uses which has been made of this method of combating disease is the employment of serum for the cure of bubonic plague.

  44. During the recent outbreak of bubonic plague in the East the part played by flies in disseminating the virus has been repeatedly emphasised.

  45. The bubonic plague, or "The plague," as the importance of the disease has caused it to be called, is one of the oldest of known epidemics.

  46. It has been proved that they are the chief means of perpetuating and transmitting bubonic plague and that they play important roles in conveying other diseases to human beings.

  47. It carries bubonic plague and many other diseases fatal to man and has been responsible for more untimely deaths among human beings than all the wars of history.

  48. It carries disease germs from house to house and bubonic plague from city to city.

  49. The present-day methods of combating bubonic plague are well illustrated by the fight in San Francisco.

  50. But the great advance which has been made rests on the discovery that bubonic plague is in the vast majority of cases transmitted by the flea.

  51. According to Wyman, 80 per cent of the human cases are of the bubonic type.

  52. It occurs in several forms, of which the bubonic and the pneumonic are the most common.

  53. We have seen that as far back as the sixteenth century, Mercurialis suggested that it was the agent in the spread of bubonic plague, and in 1658, Kircher reiterated this view.

  54. We shall first cite some general illustrations and shall then discuss the role of fleas in the spreading of bubonic plague, an illustration which cannot be regarded as typical, since it involves more than mere passive carriage.

  55. This group of parasites, concerning which little was known until recently, has assumed a very great importance since it was learned that fleas are the carriers of bubonic plague.

  56. A habit of fleas which we shall see is of significance in considering their agency in the spread of bubonic plague, is that of ejecting blood from the anus as they feed.

  57. It has been shown that it is capable of transmitting the bubonic plague, and South American trypanosomiasis.

  58. We shall next consider the role of the flea in the dissemination of the bubonic plague, an illustration complicated by the fact that the bacillus multiples within the insect and may be indirectly inoculated.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bubonic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.