catarrhal fever

The catarrhal fever was a disorder of the spring blood, like new wine close shut up in bottles.

In 1755 there was another epidemic catarrhal fever, first in February and again in the end of the year.

The universal slight fever or catarrhal fever of 1762 was, in London, much less mortal than those of 1733 and 1743.

Soon afterwards a catarrhal fever or influenza became prevalent.

Its spasmodic character in some of the older epidemics led to the confounding of epidemic catarrhal fever with whooping cough.