spotted fever

And one spring, when the high-water went down, the children got sickly and begun dying off of this here spotted fever.

But this spotted fever is cousin-german to it at least, and makes as quick riddance almost.

The spotted fever and the flux doubtless continued side by side with the plague, having been its forerunners.

At the same time typhus or spotted fever was not new to England in 1643.

We have already had evidence of the wide prevalence of spotted fever in 1624, even in the houses of the rich.