? Obs. Also swine’s-pox.
1. A name for chicken-pox.
Retained as a synonym in 19th-cent. medical works.
1530. Palsgr., 278/2. Swyne pockes, farcin.
1550. Lloyd, Treas. Health, R j. The great swyne pokes.
1624. Massinger, Renegado, I. iii. The Swine’s-pox overtake you! There’s a curse For a Turk, that eats no hog’s flesh.
1659–60. Pepys, Diary, 13 Jan. Thence I went to Mrs. Jem, and found her up, and merry, and that it did not prove the small-pox, but only the swine-pox.
1676. Jas. Cooke, Marrow Chirurg., IV. II. ix. 739. These they call Cristals, but Country-people call them Swine-Pox, Hen-Pox, &c.
2. An eruptive disease in swine.
1704. Dict. Rust. (1726), Swine-pox, an ill sore in Hogs which spreads abroad, and is a very grievous Scab.
1898. Syd. Soc. Lex., Swine-pox, a disease in which tubercles come out on the legs and thighs of swine. Around and under each tubercle is highly inflamed tissue.
