Fever is a symptom. It is not a disease. Yet there are many diseases which contain the word fever in their name. Many are duplications and some have half a dozen names. Malaria, for example, was called swamp, ardent, jungle, marsh, hill and in Guyana, blackwater fever. This was quite different from black fever or dumdum–which has nothing to do with Trini voters, who make the same mistake election after election–and is better known as kala azar.
Typhoid was another. Before the cause was known, it was called enteric, cesspool, autumnal, nervous and Lent. Lent, because of the observation that the malady was associated with eating infected fish.Because of the severe aching dengue causes, its popular name is breakbone fever, but it was commonly called red, seven day and dandy fever. It was also known as Russian headache, something western nations are very aware of.You have the well known: rheumatic, scarlet and hay fevers. Old time, typhus was known as camp or jail fever but also goal fever, which fits with the times.
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