prison fever

American  

noun

1. typhus.

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prison fever

A very woebegone battalion we must have looked as we tramped to our new quarters--many of us suffering from prison fever, all more or less in rags, and half starved.

From Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow by Herbert Strang

First, Glaucus the physician guaranteed Lygia's life, though she had the same prison fever of which, in the Tullianum and other dungeons, hundreds of people were dying daily.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin

When I left France to follow Lafayette I never dreamed that I might die of prison fever in a hole like this.

From The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country by Elma Ehrlich Levinger

The prison fever was beginning to cause alarm, and it seemed that a good fine would meet the old knight's case better than any other execution of justice.

From By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson

The next day this poor convict was taken with the prison fever, and in one short week he was a corpse.

From The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries by John N. Reynolds

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