miliary fever

British  

noun

1. Nontechnical name: sweating sickness.  an acute infectious fever characterized by profuse sweating and the formation on the skin of minute fluid-filled vesicles

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Example Sentences

Closset diagnosed Mozart’s ailment as acute miliary fever, which is more a description than a disease, miliary being a term used to describe millet-sized pustules — effectively, a rash.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2010

In Sweden the miliary fever is said by the peasantry to be caused by the elf-mote or meeting with elves, as a remedy for which the lichen aphosus or lichen caninus is sought.

From The Folk-lore of Plants by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)