febrile disease

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It is employed principally in typhoid fever, on the theory that a condition of high fever is in itself a source of danger quite distinct from the other injurious effects of a febrile disease.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents by Lord, John

Rheum′atism, a name still used somewhat loosely, but applying specially to an acute febrile disease, with swelling and pain in and around the larger joints.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Vertigo is present more frequently and in a more persistent form than in any other febrile disease.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Kakil nohkakil, the fire, the great fire, but here in the sense of a contagious febrile disease, probably the smallpox.

From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

We have in this instance to be regulated by the usual precautions, as in all febrile disease where the gastric system is the greatest sufferer.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin