Anthrax (1850 on MOA; WOTY candidate)

[Fred Shapiro]

yOn Tue, 16 Oct 2001 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    Both OED and M-W have 1876.
>    There are some 1850 hits on both Making of America databases.
> Check them out.  I haven't checked JSTOR.

The Making of America hits are probably in a different sense.  I checked
JSTOR, and there's nothing pre-1876 in the sense of a disease of animals.

Fred Shapiro


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