catarrhal fever
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of catarrhal fever
First recorded in 1780–90
Example Sentences
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Piratical Captain Dover once described a vague malaise that sailors often get as acute catarrhal fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Into Walter Reed Hospital, reportedly with heart trouble, went Multimillionaire Major Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. Out of the Philadelphia Naval Hospital after a bout with catarrhal fever came Lieut.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon afterwards a catarrhal fever or influenza became prevalent.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William
During my stay in Verkhoyansk a kind of epidemic catarrhal fever prevailed throughout the district; the symptoms were violent depression of the chest, noise in the ears, headache, etc....
From From Paris to New York by Land by De Windt, Harry
Treatment—This consists firstly in doing all in our power to guide the specific catarrhal fever to a safe termination; and, secondly, in watching for and combating complications.
From Dogs and All about Them by Leighton, Robert
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