A highly contagious disease affecting cattle, characterized by running from the eyes, nose, and mouth, fever, cessation of rumination, constipation, then diarrhœa, and emphysema before death; rinderpest.
1866. Times, 1 Jan. Summary 1865. The appearance of the cattle plague in Great Britain…. Down to the middle of December 50,000 reported cases of cattle disease had in the great majority of cases ended fatally.
1866. Bright, Sp. Reform, 13 March. [He] said that I, even in the matter of the cattle plague, set class against class.
