Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obscure disease of horses, recently (1885) described and named by Professor Dieckerhoff of Berlin.
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In strangles, equine variola, and scalma we have an intensely red, rosy coloration of the mucous membranes, full, tense pulse, and although in these diseases we may have depression, we do not have the stupor and coma except in severe cases which have lasted for several days.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
bilby commented on the word scalma
Good thing Mr Dieckerhoff didn't have to grow up in Australia with a name like that :-/
June 15, 2022