maculated fever
English
Noun
- (medicine, obsolete) Typhus characterized by a rash.
- 1835, Robert James Graves, Clinical Lecture, London Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 7, No. 172, p. 481,
- The maculated appearance of the skin increased rapidly, spreading over all parts of the trunk and extremities […] It was not totally absent in one case out of twenty, which occasioned me to name the disease maculated fever.
- 1933, H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come, London: Hutchinson, 1935, Book 4, Chapter 4, p. 272,
- In Ireland after the maculated fever the population never rose above two millions, but there was a widespread Irish tradition throughout the English-speaking world.
- 1835, Robert James Graves, Clinical Lecture, London Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 7, No. 172, p. 481,
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