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Definition of Chills and fever

1. Noun. Successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chills And Fever

Literary usage of Chills and fever

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1895)
"I have employed the drug quite extensively, but it is especially in chills and fever that I desire to emphasize its great merit. ..."

2. Transactions by Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York (1882)
"In the first place, Quinine is not a specific for chills and fever. ... Probably few homoeopaths who have treated chills and fever for several seasons, ..."

3. An Artillery Officer in the Mexican War, 1846-7: Letters of Robert Anderson by Robert Anderson, Eba Anderson Lawton (1911)
"I the more willingly acquiesce in this, as I am convinced were I exposed to-night, I would have another attack of chills and fever, which would keep me from ..."

4. The Biography of Elder David Purviance: With His Memoirs...written by by Levi Purviance (1848)
"His chills and fever. The death of his Grand-daughter. ... The same fall, he was taken with the chills and fever, which reduced his strength very fast; ..."

5. Early History of the Falls of Schuylkill, Manayunk, Schuylkill and Lehigh by Charles Valerius Hagner (1869)
"chills and fever. For several years from 1821, Manayunk was sorely afflicted with chills and fever, and doubtless the growth of the village was much ..."

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