catarrhal fever
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of catarrhal fever
First recorded in 1780–90
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Piratical Captain Dover once described a vague malaise that sailors often get as acute catarrhal fever.
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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.
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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
For the chronic cough that sometimes follows catarrhal fever, Copaiva, Macrotin and Phosphorus should be used morning, noon and night, in the order here named.
From An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time by Hill, B. L. (Benjamin L.)
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
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