febrile disease

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Tuberculosis is a chronic febrile disease, caused by the bacillus tuberculosis, a parasitic micro-organism discovered by Koch in 1882.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

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

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

The last has no special relation to this affection, as it is met with in almost every febrile disease, but it has sometimes extended to the whole face in this one.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various