calenture

• It has no noisy manifestations and consequently one may not be able to find it among the crowds who shout most loudly for war One finds instead a sort of violent fever and calenture which not merely deflects, as any emotion may, but totally inhibits the rational operations of the mind. —  The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade
• They called it a calenture, or fever, and attributed it to "the sudden change from cold to heat, or by reason of brackish water which had been taken in by our pinnace, through the sloth of their men in the mouth of the river, not rowing further in where the water was good." —  On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
• On the way thither they buried William Cammock, one of their men, who had drunk too hard at La Serena "which produced in him a calenture or malignant fever, and a hiccough." —  On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
• Did the mariner really see the spectral bark and hear spirits talking, or was it all but the phantasmagoria of the calenture, the fever which attacks the sailor on the tropic main, so that he seems to see green meadows and water brooks on the level brine? —  A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
• It is true there might have been some ground for recollections, considering that three at least of the company were old friends, and kept much company together: that is, Justice-Clerk,[132] [Lord] Abercromby, and I. But the sensation was so strong as to resemble what is called a mirage in the desert, or a calenture on board ship, when lakes are seen in the desert, and silvan landscapes in the sea. —  The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

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