maculated fever

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Noun

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,
      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.