(the) white plague

(the) white plague
   obsolete
   pulmonary tuberculosis
   The illness attracted much euphemism because it killed many young adults:
    When scarlet fever, cholera, typhoid fever, and the 'white plague' (tuberculosis) took such a toll of young ladies in their prime... (Pearsall, 1969, writing of the 19th century)

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