单词 | jail-fever |
释义 | jail-fevergaol-fevern. A virulent type of typhus-fever, formerly endemic in crowded jails, and frequent in ships and other confined places. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > typhus or typhoid putrid fever1597 pestilential fever1617 tabardillo1624 synochus1625 Hungaric fever1661 typhus1664 military fever1736 jail distemper1745 hospital fever1750 jail-fever1754 ship-fever1758 typhus fever1780 typhoid fever1789 gastric fever1802 dothinenteritis1826 enteric fever1833 typhoid1837 pythogenic fever1858 thanatotyphus1860 typh fever1861 enteric1872 famine-fever1876 Red River fever1878 laryngo-typhus1888 laryngo-typhoid1896 typh fever1900 paratyphoid1904 1750 Pringle (title) Observations on the Nature and Cure of Hospital and Jail Fevers.] 1754 J. Pringle in Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 42 Cases of the true gaol-fever [printed goal-fever] arising from the gaol itself. 1780 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 578/1 No signs of a jail-fever were ever discovered in the Russian prisons. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 356 The gaol fever is seldom to be met with except on board of ships or in crowded towns. 1887 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Gaol fever, a term for a very infectious and fatal fever which at various times..has broken out in crowded, dirty prisons... There is no doubt that this was Typhus fever generated in the prison out of the filth, and overcrowding, and bad diet and close foul air. 1899 W. Besant Orange Girl ii. xxii. 378 Her cheek grew pale and thin: her eyes became unnaturally bright: I feared gaol-fever. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1754 |
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