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

But who will judge a man's constitution by the symptoms of calenture?

From St George's Cross by Keene, H. G. (Henry George)

Carlisle was there seated in the shade of a giant palm, watching the drilling of a yet weak and staggering company whose very memory that burning calenture had enfeebled.

From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary

The evidence relative to yellow fever, or calenture, during this period in Virginia is contradictory.

From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Hughes, Thomas Proctor

Love's calenture too well I understand; But sure your beauty is no fairy-land!

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir