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catarrhal fever

American  

noun

Veterinary Pathology.
  1. bluetongue.


Etymology

Origin of catarrhal fever

First recorded in 1780–90

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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

Such local epidemics are without doubt due to local causes, and are of the nature of simple ordinary catarrhal fever, rather than true influenza.

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

As early as the ninth century several epidemics of catarrhal fever, Italian fever, and the like, which were probably influenza, were made matter of history.

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

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 Harry De Windt

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