1. (n.) A carbuncle.

2. (n.) A malignant pustule.

3. (n.) A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.]

4. (n.) An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

African lethargy Asiatic cholera Chagres fever German measles Haverhill fever Minamata disease Texas fever acute articular rheumatism ague alkali disease altitude sickness amebiasis amebic dysentery anoxemia anoxia anoxic anoxia aphthous fever bacillary dysentery bastard measles bighead black death black fever black lung black quarter blackleg blackwater blackwater fever blind staggers bloody flux breakbone fever broken wind brucellosis bubonic plague cachectic fever caisson disease cattle plague cerebral rheumatism charbon chicken pox chilblain cholera cowpox dandy fever decompression sickness deer fly fever dengue dengue fever diphtheria distemper dumdum fever dysentery elephantiasis encephalitis lethargica enteric fever erysipelas famine fever five-day fever flu foot-and-mouth disease frambesia frostbite gapes glanders glandular fever grippe hansenosis heaves hepatitis herpes herpes simplex herpes zoster histoplasmosis hog cholera hoof-and-mouth disease hookworm hydrophobia immersion foot infantile paralysis infectious mononucleosis inflammatory rheumatism influenza itai jail fever jet lag jungle rot kala azar kissing disease lead poisoning lepra leprosy leptospirosis liver rot loa loa loaiasis lockjaw loco loco disease locoism mad staggers madness malaria malarial fever malignant catarrh malignant catarrhal fever malignant pustule mange marsh fever measles megrims meningitis mercury poisoning milzbrand motion sickness mumps ornithosis osteomyelitis paratuberculosis paratyphoid fever parotitis parrot fever pertussis pip pneumoconiosis pneumonia polio poliomyelitis polyarthritis rheumatism ponos pseudotuberculosis psittacosis quarter evil rabbit fever rabies radiation sickness radionecrosis rat-bite fever red-out relapsing fever rheumatic fever rickettsialpox rinderpest ringworm rot rubella rubeola scabies scarlatina scarlet fever schistosomiasis septic sore throat sheep rot shingles sleeping sickness sleepy sickness smallpox snail fever splenic fever spotted fever staggers strep throat stringhalt sunstroke swamp fever swine dysentery tetanus the bends thrush tinea trench fever trench foot trench mouth tuberculosis tularemia typhoid typhoid fever typhus typhus fever undulant fever vaccinia varicella variola venereal disease viral dysentery whooping cough yaws yellow fever yellow jack zona zoster