calenture
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And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be cast into a calenture?
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Sir John Denham
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
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 ailment was influenza, and he called it a calenture.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
That the man who had promised to marry her, had exhausted the vocabulary of love for her, should thus cast her off, struck her into a frantic calenture which, for a season, threatened her existence.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
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