pyretology

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English

Noun

pyretology

  1. A discourse or treatise on fevers; the doctrine of fevers.
    • 1893, “On African Haemoglobinuric Fever”, in Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London:
      Therefore, if the pyretology of Europe includes some five or six fevers, it is not improbable that the pyretology of the tropics includes as many, if not more.

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