calenture

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"And that my experience was illusory, the result of vertigo, or some temporary calenture of the brain?"

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri

Might he not urge in his excuse, to cloak him from his own and the world's contempt, some unsuspected calenture, for which, had he known, he ought to have taken medical advice?

From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George

But one day they seemed to be his calenture also—the false picture of green fields and sweet female faces that rises before the eye of the sailor becalmed at sea.

From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Caine, Hall, Sir

The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.

From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George

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 Farnol, Jeffery