febris

[ feb-ris ]

/ ˈfɛb rɪs /

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(in prescriptions) fever.

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From Latin

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
It meant simply acuta, the adjective of febris acuta made into a substantive.
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2)|Charles Creighton
Febris epidemicae cerebro et nervoso generi potissimum infestae, anno 1661 increbescentis descriptio, in Pathologia Cerebri, Cap.
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2)|Charles Creighton

This fever, with strong pulse without inflammation, or febris irritativa, described in Class I. 1.
Zoonomia, Vol. II|Erasmus Darwin