chicken cholera

noun

, Veterinary Pathology.

1. fowl cholera.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chicken cholera¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Louis Pasteur developed vaccines for animal diseases such as chicken cholera and anthrax, but of these he is best remembered for his rabies vaccine.

From The Guardian

Most interesting have been the successes with such culture-inoculations obtained by Buchner, Greenfield, and Pasteur with anthrax in sheep; by Pasteur also in chicken cholera; and by Willems and Law36 with the lung-plague of cattle.

From Project Gutenberg

The results obtained by Pasteur in attenuating the virus of chicken cholera and splenic fever indicate one line which these experiments will take, and the researches of Koch point out another.

From Project Gutenberg

The same is true of the poison of chicken cholera, which Salmon dilutes until it is non-fatal, though still affecting the system and conferring an immunity from its attacks in the future.

From Project Gutenberg

Experiments with the result which I have stated have been made with the microbes of splenic fever, chicken cholera, murrain, and certain other maladies.

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