calenture

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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

“Too old!”–His calenture ceased suddenly; there was a tug on his fishing line.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund

To make matters worse, the captain again fell sick of a kind of calenture, and took to his bed.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert

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

And for that lethargy was there no care, But to be cast into a calenture?

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund