febris

Historical Examples

• It belongs to the great, antique, and illustrious family of febris, whose origin is lost in the darkness of ages.

  The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6

  Eugne Sue

• This fever differs entirely from the febris flava—the typhus icteroides of Sauvages.

  Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2)

  A Sexton of the Old School

• Febris (Fe′bris) (fever), one of the evil deities, was worshiped that she might not do harm.

  1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described

  Edward S. Ellis

• Yet my judgment is, be it spoken without offence of the learned physicians, that the disease was Febris ardens, a burning fever.

  A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)

  Charles Creighton

• Morton, writing in 1692-94, clearly points to the same fever under the name of worm fever (febris verminosa).

  A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2)

  Charles Creighton