rising of the lights
nounEtymology
From lights (“lungs”).
Definitions
An illness or obstructive condition of the larynx, trachea, or lungs, found as a cause of…
An illness or obstructive condition of the larynx, trachea, or lungs, found as a cause of death on bills of mortality in the 16- and 1700s; possibly croup.
- John Graunt reflected on the increases in death from particular diseases between 1634 and 1660: […] That the Rising of the lights (supposed in most Cases to be the Fits of the Mother) have also encreased in thirty years, […]
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