brow-ague

I got very thin and weak, and had a curious disease known (I have since heard) as brow-ague.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

I got very thin and weak, and had a curious disease known (I have since heard) as brow-ague.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

I was daft, with my head out of the window, in an awful draught, at the serious risk of brow-ague, not to speak of coal-smuts, which are horrid if ye get them in your eye.

We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

The resignation of all lingering hope of escape, and the effort to be contented, cost him more than even his original breaking in; and Mr. Kendal one day found him sitting in his little office parlour unable to think or to speak under a terrible visitation of his autumnal tormentor, brow-ague.

The Young Step-Mother Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862