Do we say epidemic or pandemic

epidemic 338 occurrences

"She was sent for to help with the epidemic.

There has been quite an epidemic of crime lately, as you know, Mr. Crewe.

"Monsieur GAMBETTA," I then went on to say, "don't you think that this horrible epidemic of gas, that is now filling with its deleterious effluvia the brains and the throat of the French Government, ought to be stopped?

Winnenap' did this the time of the measles epidemic.

The winter of the Big Snow an epidemic of pneumonia carried off the Indians with scarcely a warning; from the lake northward to the lava flats they died in the sweat-houses, and under the hands of the medicine-men.

Shock, collapse, heart failure and sudden death following abnormal emotion, like an attack of rage, or the terrors of a railroad accident, or bad news, or excessive exertion like running a long race or climbing a high mountain when in poor general health, as the phrase goes, or in the terminal stages of infections like epidemic influenza or Asiatic cholera, have been put down to an acute insufficiency of the adrenal gland.

But the contrary is the case: even the epidemic of crime foreshadowed by Mrs. Pankhurst could not appreciably delay woman suffrage.

Not long after, they were afflicted with an epidemic; and though in consequence of this there arose an unwillingness to serve, yet no respite from arms was given them by the warlike king, who considered besides that the bodies of the young men were more healthy when on service abroad than at home, until he himself also was attacked by a lingering disease.

One fly carrying germs on his feet from the sinks to the food can start a serious and fatal epidemic in a camp.

This land quarantine, between Syria and Asia Minor, when the former country is free from any epidemic, seems a most absurd thing.

Yet when the flu epidemic returned upon us, she stood by, efficient, deft, and gallant, though still imperious, until the day when she clashed her lath-and-tinsel sword of theory against the tempered steel of the Little Red Doctor's experience.

Every engine of war will, no doubt, be brought into use, traps of many kinds, poisons, cats, the professional rat-catcher, and a rat bacillus which, if once it gets a footing, is expected to originate a fearful epidemic.

Two of their three children had died of typhoid in the epidemic which devastated Apex before the new water-works were built; and this calamity, by causing Mr. Spragg to resolve that thereafter Apex should drink pure water, had led directly to the founding of his fortunes.

The present epidemic was discussed by Captain NEWMAN and Sir JOHN REES who were not agreed as to whether port is a "preventative" or a "preventive" of influenza, but were unanimous in thinking that far too little of it was available.

Everybody in England, for example, was bored by the discussion of sanitationuntil the great cholera epidemic.

It has a strong resemblance at any rate to some sort of epidemic.

Probably Epidemic Hypertrophy will meet the case.

" "Epidemic!" said the Vicar.

The plain fact is there is an epidemic of HypertrophyContagious Hypertrophywhich you have about as much claim to control as you have to control the solar system.

So successful was this, that on M. De Rothschild's preserves at Rambouillet, where a few days before gapes were so virulent that 1,200 pheasants were found dead every morning, it succeeded in stopping the epidemic in a few days.

Epidemic encephalitis; third report.

RAPPLEYE, WILLARD C. Epidemic encephalitis.

* In connection with the epidemic of burglaries in London, The Daily Express has now published a leader note saying there have been too many of late.

When we got to Paris, there seemed to be an epidemic of gun-metal ornaments set with tiny pearls, diamonds, or sapphires.

It was taken by the Duke of Cumberland four years later, but abandoned again on account of the epidemic that broke out among the English troops.

pandemic 3 occurrences

This deity is to be carefully distinguished from the Cyprian or Pandemic Aphrodite: she is different, not only in attribute and function, but even in personality and origin.

His poems abound in references to the contrast between Uranian and Pandemic, celestial and vulgar, Eros.

It followed thatamong the futile persons who use serious, long words in talking about mere books,aggrieved reproof of my auctorial malversations, upon the one ground or the other, became in 1921 biloquial and pandemic.

Do we say   epidemic   or  pandemic