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Rheumatic fever

noun

A severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of the joints and frequently damage to the heart valves.

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"Rheumatic fever" Quotes from Famous Books

... up with rheumatic fever for three months. The consequence was that when quarter day came round he was in about the same situation with ourselves—a little worse, even, for his wife was sick also. But, though Colman was aware of the circumstances, he had no pity; he ...

— Jack's Ward • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... always said, they all did it laying waste the circulating libraries. If Limbert had a weakness he rather broke down in his reading. It was fortunately not till after the appearance of The Hidden Heart that he broke down in everything else. He had had rheumatic fever in the spring, when the book was but half finished, and this ordeal in addition to interrupting his work had enfeebled his powers of resistance and greatly reduced his vitality. He recovered from the fever and was able to take up the book again, but the organ of life was pronounced ominously weak ...

— Embarrassments • Henry James

... her attractions for the sordid gratifications of avarice, but also as an interloper, who wanted to intercept her fortune, in the odious character of a father-in-law. But, before she could bring her aim to any ripeness of contrivance, her mother, having caught cold at church, was seized with a rheumatic fever, became delirious in less than three days, and, notwithstanding all the prescriptions and care of her admirer, gave up the ghost, without having retrieved the use of her senses, or been able to manifest, by will, the sentiments she entertained in favour of her physician, who, ...

— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett

Words linked to "Rheumatic fever" : infectious disease, rheumatic aortitis