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spotted fever

noun

, Pathology.

any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, especially as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever.
tick fever.

spotted fever

any of various severe febrile diseases characterized by small irregular spots on the skin, as in Rocky Mountain spotted fever or tick fever

First recorded in 1640–50

And one spring, when the high-water went down, the children got sickly and begun dying off of this here spotted fever.

But this spotted fever is cousin-german to it at least, and makes as quick riddance almost.

The spotted fever and the flux doubtless continued side by side with the plague, having been its forerunners.

At the same time typhus or spotted fever was not new to England in 1643.

We have already had evidence of the wide prevalence of spotted fever in 1624, even in the houses of the rich.

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