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Definition of Pertusses
1. pertussis [n] - See also: pertussis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pertusses
Literary usage of Pertusses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1879)
"The digestion and the general health in uncomplicated pertusses remain unimpaired,
with the exception of more or less emaciation, which is apt to ..."
2. American Medical Journal (1891)
"... eclectics: "The 'physio-medic' asked, 'What \s pertusses / ' and also the very
comprehensive question, 'What does delayed dentition prognosticate? ..."
3. Method of Memorizing the Materia Medica by Andrew Leight Monroe (1882)
"... pertusses, is pale, but with cough, blue and stiff; A nd Headaches and Spasms 't
will aid it is said, ..."
4. Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture by Indiana State Board of Agriculture (1882)
"Take a case of pertusses or whooping- cough, which is found to be caused by a
microscopic fungus, locating itself in the mouth by the side of the tongue, ..."
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