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(n.) A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Typhus'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/typhus.html. 1828.
 
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