camp-fever

This was Colonel Campbell, who had very highly regarded Fairfax, as an excellent officer and most deserving young man; and farther, had been indebted to him for such attentions, during a severe camp-fever, as he believed had saved his life.

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

John had gone through a sharp attack of camp-fever; that Reuben was taken prisoner, but escaped by his own wit.

Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918

Emerson's grandfather, a patriot chaplain in the Revolution, who died of camp-fever at Ticonderoga.

The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bliss Perry 1907

It has long been known under the names of hospital-fever, spotted-fever, jail-fever, camp-fever, and ship-fever, and has been the regular associate of such social disturbances as overcrowding, excesses, famine, and war.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

It has long been known under the names of hospital-fever, spotted-fever, jail-fever, camp-fever, and ship-fever, and has been the regular associate of such social disturbances as overcrowding, excesses, famine, and war.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Campbell, next year, went down to join Greene's army, did gallant work at Guilford Courthouse, and then died of camp-fever.

The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

There is good trouting within an hour's walk for those who choose, and there is some interest, with a little exercise, in cooking and cutting night wood, slicking up, etc. But the whole party is stricken with "camp-fever," "Indian laziness," the dolce far niente.

Woodcraft George Washington Sears 1855

Massachusetts regiment, and died in Mexico of camp-fever.

Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853

His malady (camp-fever) had increased, and Washington sent Doctor Craik with him.

Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Benson John Lossing 1852

This, however, seems to have weakened his constitution, and rendered him an easy victim to what was called the camp-fever, then prevalent in Oxford.

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1 George Gilfillan 1845