Surra

In Southern Asia and in parts of Africa there is a very serious disease of horses known as surra which is caused by a similar parasite ❋ Rennie Wilbur Doane (N/A)

They are the most satisfactory draught-animals ever introduced and, but for the fear of the new disease "surra," might take the place of buffaloes in agriculture. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)

Unfortunately, prices of everything have risen since 1898, and, moreover, a fatal horse-disease, called "surra," unknown in the Islands before that period, has considerably reduced the stock of ponies. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)

Islamic scholars can emphasize that the Quran clearly teaches that no one can be punished on account of the actions of others (surra 6, verse 164). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jag längtar efter att komma ner till Malmö och få liksom surra runt lite i all din kreativitet och framgång, dricka lite kaffe på studion. ❋ Niklas Asker (2009)

Minu Ninetta, surra maikuus ci vuole tanto troppo coraggio see vajab liig palju vaprust ❋ Tatsutahime (2008)

At present the surra is misapplied, and serves only to feed a swarm of persons in a state of complete idleness, while the poor are left destitute, and not the smallest encouragement is given to industry. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He likewise fixed the surra from Constantinople, or, as it is called, the Greek surra, at thirty-one thousand ducats per annum. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The Hadj caravans now ceased; few pilgrims arrived by way of Yembo; Saoud, soon after, prohibited the passage to the town to all Turkish pilgrims; and the surra or stipends were of course withheld. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Many families are, in this manner, wholly supported by the surra, and receive as much as 100l. and 200l sterling per annum, without performing any duty whatever. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Serour, the former extorted from every caravan that came to Mekka considerable sums, besides the surra to which they were entitled. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They were entitled to share in the yearly salaries originally fixed by the Sultan, for the pay of the garrison, and regularly transmitted from Constantinople; and had, besides, usurped a share of the surra or stipends sent to the mosque and to the whole town. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Ignorant of every occupation but that of arms, they lived upon the cattle which they kept among the Bedouins, and in different parts of the Hedjaz; the surra which they were entitled to receive from the Hadj; and the presents which they exacted from the pilgrims, and from their dependents in the town. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He was guilty of the most flagrant acts of injustice; he oppressed the pilgrims, extorted money from them, confiscated the property of all the hadjys and foreigners who died here, withheld the surra brought from ❋ Unknown (2003)

Then followed work in India and Africa on malaria, blackwater fever, surra of cattle and horses and plague, and the publication of his observations on these diseases in 1898. ❋ Unknown (1967)

In some sections it is almost impossible to keep any kind of imported animals on account of this disease which is caused by a parasite (_Trypanosoma brucei_) similar to the one causing surra. ❋ Rennie Wilbur Doane (N/A)

When the _surra_, or horse disease, had made a scarcity of those animals, the padre's gilded equipage had to be drawn by a cebu, or very small and weary-looking cow, imported from Indo-China. ❋ Mary Helen Fee (N/A)

Since the _sheukh_, or heads, alone receive their tribes '_surra_, it is not much that they should be to the arms [of his] coffee-hosts. ❋ Unknown (1909)

There is increased yellowness of the membranes, fresh crops of petechiæ on the conjunctiva, a collection of gelatinous material at the inner angle, which at times becomes red in color from an admixture of blood, and which on microscopic examination is found to contain a varying number of the surra parasites; increased swelling and edema of the extremities and abdomen, which now extends between the fore limbs and up the chest. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

_ -- All evidence now available seems to indicate that surra is strictly a wound disease, namely, that the parasite may enter the body only through a wound of some kind. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)