calenture

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"And that my experience was illusory, the result of vertigo, or some temporary calenture of the brain?"

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri

What to do? you already know that her betrothed, Señor Santillo de Santayana, is dead a year ago of a calenture.

From Rita by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

Four more officers died, and most of Ralegh's personal servants, so that, though he was himself suffering from a severe calenture, he was attended only by pages.

From Great Ralegh by Selincourt, Hugh de

One finds instead a sort of violent fever and calenture which not merely deflects, as any emotion may, but totally inhibits the rational operations of the mind.

From The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade by Mavrogordato, John

Yellow fever and calenture broke out among the troops in camp around Santiago about the same time that they appeared in Siboney.

From Campaigning in Cuba by Kennan, George