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† ˈpurple ˈfever Obs.
An old name for purpura; but also applied vaguely to other fevers attended with purplish cutaneous eruptions.
1626Bacon Sylva §804 The Lesser Infections, of the small Pocks, Purple Feavers, Agues, in the summer Precedent, and hovering all winter, do portend a great Pestilence in the summer following. 1666Lond. Gaz. No. 61/2 We are in..great fear of the Plague, several persons being lately dead of a very malignant Purple-Feavor. 1728–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Purple, The purple fever..is a kind of plague, or a malignant fever discovering itself in eruptions on the skin like the bites of bugs or fleas, or like grains of millet, or the small-pox; whence it is sometimes also called the spotted and miliary fever. Ibid. s.v. Fever, Eruptive Fevers are..attended with cutaneous eruptions. Such are those of the small-pox, meazles, the petechial, the purple or scarlet fever, and the miliary fever. 1890Billings Nat. Med. Dict., Purple fever, cerebro-spinal fever. |