WordNet
n. rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever [syn: typhus]
Usage examples of "typhus fever".
I said I was sorry for his disappointment, but Jane Eyre was dead: she had died of typhus fever at Lowood.
As for instance, a typhus fever has been brought by ships to one sea-port town.
A drink much in use on the Continent for typhus fever: Pour a quart of boiling water on 6 oz.
Your American doctors - two were called in to see Saratovsky - say it is the typhus fever.
I carried the infection of crime with me, and she has caught it as she would the typhus fever, the cholera, the plague!
It promotes perspiration without producing any excitement in the system, so is of value in pleurisy, typhus fever and other inflammatory diseases.
It is this: his lost memory returns to him when he is delirious, and goes away again when he is himself-just as old Canada Joe used to talk the French patois of his boyhood in the delirium of typhus fever, though he could not do it when his mind was clear.
Mother says she believes as half a hour's good laugh every mornin' 'ud cure a chap as was makin' ready for typhus fever.