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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pustular disease of horses, which, communicated to cows, produces cowpox.

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Examples

  • It is true that at one time it was not clear what were the relationships of chickenpox and smallpox, of vaccinia and variola, of vaccinia and varioloid, of the various forms of pox in animals -- cowpox, swinepox, horsepox or grease -- either inter se or to human smallpox.

    Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous

  • It is true that at one time it was not clear what were the relationships of chickenpox and smallpox, of vaccinia and variola, of vaccinia and varioloid, of the various forms of pox in animals -- cowpox, swinepox, horsepox or grease -- either inter se or to human smallpox.

    The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915

  • Certain inflammations are specific, as in strangles, the horsepox, glanders, etc., where a characteristic or specific cause or condition is added to the origin, character of phenomena, or alterations which result from an ordinary inflammation.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • _ -- The diagnosis of horsepox is to be based on the presence of a continuous fever, with rosy mucous membranes, for several days and the appearance of the characteristic eruption.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • Hard lumps, from which radiate welt-like swellings of the lymphatics, occur in glanders, and blisterlike eruptions occur around the mouth and pasterns in horsepox.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • Cattle and men, if inoculated from a case of horsepox, develop vaccinia, but vaccinia from the latter animals is not so readily reinoculated into the horse with success.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • The lips or genital organs of a colored horse, if covered with a number of small white spots about the size of a pea, will usually indicate that the animal has been affected with the horsepox.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • _ -- When horsepox breaks out among a large number of horses, especially on a farm where there are a number of colts, it may be assumed that the greater majority will contract the disease, and it is more economical that they should have it and be through with it at once.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • _ -- The average case of horsepox runs a course of dejection, loss of appetite, and more or less fever for about four days, followed by a rapid convalescence, and leaves the animal as well and as sound as before.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • _ -- A case of horsepox may be attended with various complications of varying degrees of importance.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

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