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

That many died from dysentery, smallpox and prison fever, there is no doubt; but there is not any record that they were starved to death.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

The principal physical disabilities are prison fever, colds, pneumonia, lung diseases and rheumatism.

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

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 Reynolds, John N.

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 Benson, Robert Hugh