calenture

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The most prevalent diseases of this country are dysenteries, hot fevers, and calentures, in all which they prescribe abstinence as a principal remedy.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

The sick men recovering from their calentures "were thoroughly revived" by these tales.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John

But at six bells in the first watch he was missing, as was discovered by old Brooks, the authority on calentures.

From The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various

"On the Pascha, sir," replied Hixom, "where they are slowly recovering of their calentures."

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert

His "business was to sail the ship, and not to cure calentures."

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles