catarrhal fever

American  

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. bluetongue.

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Etymology

Origin of catarrhal fever

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

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

Piratical Captain Dover once described a vague malaise that sailors often get as acute catarrhal fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

Epidemic catarrhal fever is, with its Latin equivalent, the most satisfactory of the so-called scientific names by which the disease is at present known.

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

In 1626-27 epidemic catarrhal fever made its appearance in Italy and France; in 1642-43 in Holland; in 1647 in Spain and in the colonies of the Western World; and again, in 1655 in North America.

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

Its spasmodic character in some of the older epidemics led to the confounding of epidemic catarrhal fever with whooping cough.

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