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yellow fever
1. A dangerous infectious febrile disease of hot climates, characterized by vomiting, constipation, fatty degeneration of the liver, jaundice, etc.
1748J. Lining in Ess. Phys. & Lit. (1756) II. 370 That fever, which continues two or three days, and terminates without any critical discharge,..and which is soon succeeded with an icteritious colour in the white of the eyes and the skin, vomiting, hæmorrhages, &c...is called in America, the yellow fever. 1758Let. to Mayor of ― 47 Seamen seized by the yellow Fever in the West Indies. 1825Southey Let. to John May 16 Mar. in Life (1849) I. 156 He had had the yellow fever three times, and..still bore strong vestiges of it in his complexion. 1877F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 204 Most authorities hold that true yellow-fever is of the continued type. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases vii. 138 Inoculations by the bites of mosquitoes previously fed on yellow fever patients. 1898Jrnl. Sch. Geog. (U.S.) Oct. 300 When a sufficient altitude is reached, the yellow fever zone is left behind.
2. In various allusive uses, chiefly humorous.
1854Poultry Chron. I. 582 After this we got the yellow fever, and the clear buff and silver cinnamon fever. We did not care for a thing except speckless colour. c1856Denham Tracts (1892) I. 336 When the ‘Runch’ is in bloom the appearance is called ‘the Yellow Fever’. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Yellow fever, a cant term for drunkenness at Greenwich Hospital; the sailors when punished wearing a parti-coloured coat, in which yellow predominates. 1884Illustr. Sydney News 26 Aug. 5/3 He said I had the yellow fever [i.e. for gold], and was to go to the diggings to get cured. |