calenture
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To make matters worse, the captain again fell sick of a kind of calenture, and took to his bed.
From Palm Tree Island by Herbert Strang
Yellow fever and calenture broke out among the troops in camp around Santiago about the same time that they appeared in Siboney.
From Campaigning in Cuba by George Kennan
Four more officers died, and most of Ralegh's personal servants, so that, though he was himself suffering from a severe calenture, he was attended only by pages.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
They seemed to me to have nothing more than calenture, brought on by overwork, a malarious atmosphere, and a bad sanitary environment.
From Campaigning in Cuba by George Kennan
And us wi' scarce any water and half on us rotten wi' scurvy or calenture, an' no luck this cruise, neither!
From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol
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