calenture
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For example, the chapter on 'scorbutic nostalgia' — the psychological and emotional impacts of the disease, including hallucinations of food, water or home — is woven through an examination of the depression attributed to 'calenture', or sea-fever.
From Nature
While moored here, Joseph Gabriel, the Chilian, who stole the Indian king's daughter, died of a malignant calenture.
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"And that my experience was illusory, the result of vertigo, or some temporary calenture of the brain?"
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Calenture, kal′en-tūr, n. a kind of fever or delirium occurring on board ship in hot climates.
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To make matters worse, the captain again fell sick of a kind of calenture, and took to his bed.
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