miliary fever
noun
an acute infectious fever characterized by profuse sweating and the formation on the skin of minute fluid-filled vesicles: Nontechnical name: sweating sickness
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How to use miliary fever in a sentence
The first notice by Dr Johnstone is of a low miliary fever from Midsummer 1752 to the end of the year.
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2) | Charles Creighton
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