calenture
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The evidence relative to yellow fever, or calenture, during this period in Virginia is contradictory.
From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Thomas Proctor Hughes
The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.
From The Whirlpool by George Gissing
He who held command that lamentable day was Captain--now Sir Mortimer--Ferne; for I, who was Admiral of the expedition, must lie in my cabin, ill almost unto death of a calenture.
From Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston
But in this voyage I was extremely sick, being thrown into a violent calenture through the excessive heat, trading upon the coast from the latitude of fifteen degrees north, even to the line itself.
From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Daniel Defoe
“Too old!”–His calenture ceased suddenly; there was a tug on his fishing line.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
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