prison fever

American  

noun

1. typhus.

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Example Sentences

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 Curtin, Jeremiah

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 Levinger, Elma Ehrlich

I took the prison fever and was sent to the hospital.

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

It is only the prison fever," the young man answered; "food and this cold will drive that out of me.

From Lion and the Unicorn by Davis, Richard Harding

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 Strang, Herbert