maculated fever

Englisch

Nomen

maculated fever (uncountable)

1. (medicine, obsolete) Typhus characterized by a rash.
   • 1835, Robert James Graves, Clinical Lecture, London Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 7, No. 172, p. 481,^[1]

     The maculated appearance of the skin increased rapidly, spreading over all parts of the trunk and extremities […] It was not totally absent in one case out of twenty, which occasioned me to name the disease maculated fever.

   • 1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Schooling of Mankind”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 4th book (The Modern State Militant), page 349:

     In Ireland after the maculated fever the population never rose above two millions, but there was a widespread Irish tradition throughout the English-speaking world.