Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body.
An addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)
1 It was the scar of the white plague , the sign-manual of death.
2 On her frail beauty was stamped the sign of the white plague .
3 It's the frail ones who are carried off by the white plague .
4 The white plague permitted few native women to become old.
5 What wonder the white plague is always with us?
6 New drugs developed during the 20th century turned the " white plague " into a curable disease.
7 Carol thought at first they were brothers, and so they were,-brothersin the grip of the great white plague .
8 Will not destitution and its attendant conditions increase the probability that a given individual will succumb to the white plague ?
9 The White Plague had come to the home in Edinburgh and taken away his two brothers.
10 How much longer will this outrage on the unfortunate victims of the White Plague be tolerated?
11 The universal dissemination of this knowledge will do much to rob the "Great White Plague " of its terrors.
12 Even little children can help to fight and kill this "Great White Plague , " and I'll tell you how.
13 The lecturer talked about the dread disease called the White Plague , which every year carried off so many people in Sweden.
14 There is an effort now to rouse our government to fight the White Plague , in people as well as in cattle.
15 The account of the Black Death gives excellent occasion for a brief discussion of modern sanitation and the war on the White Plague .
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