Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An epizoötic and zymotic disease of the silk-worm of commerce, evidenced outwardly by dwindling and inequality in size, and by black spots like burns. Inside, the body is filled with minute ovoid corpuscles (Microsporidiæ), upon the presence and multiplication of which the disease depends. Pebrine is both contagious and infectious. The Pasteur system of selection consists in the microscopic examination of the moth after egg-laying, and the rejection of eggs laid by those found to be diseased. The microbe which causes pebrine was named by Lebert Panhistophyton, and classed among the psorosperms.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of pébrine.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.
Examples
“In 1849 a strange disease, called pebrine, broke out among the worms; they were unable to moult and died before the cocoons were spun.”
“His investigations of the diseases of beer and wine; of pebrine, a disease affecting silk-worms; of anthrax, and of fowl cholera, were of immense commercial importance and led to conclusions which have revolutionised physiology, pathology, and therapeutics.”
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
“Pasteur found the silk-worm had been suffering from two diseases, pebrine and flacherie, and that the spread of these diseases could be prevented by careful segregation of healthy worms from those diseased.”
“As the result of five years 'work, Pasteur had restored the silk industry to its former position, and had shown that the microscopic examination of the moth laying the eggs to be hatched was a perfect safeguard against _pebrine_ and _flacherie_.”
“The most fatal and wide-spread disease, and one which since 1854 has threatened the extermination of silk worms in Europe, is the _pebrine_.”
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
“After meeting with such great success M.. Trouvelot lost all his worms by pebrine, the germs being imported in eggs received from Japan through M. Guérin-M.neville of Paris.”
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
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