tussis

This is perhaps the only special reference to tussis as epidemic until the influenzas of the seventeenth century.

The earliest references to it are in the medieval Latin chronicles under the name of tussis or cough, or in some periphrasis.

Deeper he bent over his books, racked by the stone (calculus): bronchitis (tussis) attacked him; but still he refused to rest.

But his body grew heavy with the increasing ills of extreme age, and the hard breathing of tussis.

Name from tussis, a cough, for which the plant is a reputed remedy.