the now prevalent spelling of HOOPING-COUGH.
1739. Mrs. E. Montagu, Corr. (1906), I. 37. One little boy had whooping cough.
1755. Johnson, Hooping-cough,… (or whooping cough, from hoop, to shout).
1873. Spencer, Study Sociol., iii. 55. Will it … be carried off by scarlet fever or whooping-cough?
