Daily AncestorPleuropneumonia
Pleuropneumonia meant pneumonia together with pleurisy, inflammation of both the lung and its lining; the same word named a deadly cattle disease.
Webster's 1913 defines pleuropneumonia as inflammation of the pleura and lungs, a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, and notes that it also named a contagious, fatal lung plague of cattle.
On a human death record it describes a chest infection that reached both the lung and its lining. Wiktionary gives the same two senses.
As seen in a recordCause of death column, 1850 to 1880 federal mortality schedule
Ezra Hite, 37, M, W, Farmer, Pleuro-pneumonia
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Daily Ancestor. "Pleuropneumonia." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/causes-of-death/pleuropneumonia. Last checked 2026-10-10.