febrile disease

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This is a febrile disease, and is treated with a cooling purgative, bleeding, and oil or lard applied to the sores.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert

Kakil nohkakil, the fire, the great fire, but here in the sense of a contagious febrile disease, probably the smallpox.

From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

It is employed principally in typhoid fever, on the theory that a condition of high fever is in itself a source of danger quite distinct from the other injurious effects of a febrile disease.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents by Lord, John

Usually myocarditis results from the preexistence of blood poisoning or of some infectious febrile disease.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

We have in this instance to be regulated by the usual precautions, as in all febrile disease where the gastric system is the greatest sufferer.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin