Daily AncestorContinued fever
Continued fever was an old name for any fever that ran on for days or weeks without breaking; it named the pattern, not the disease behind it.
Older doctors sorted fevers by their pattern: intermittent fevers came and went, remittent fevers eased but did not stop, and continued fevers never broke. Webster's 1913 defines continued fever as a fever with no interruption in its course.
The label describes the pattern, not the germ, so the illness behind it cannot be known from the record alone.
As seen in a recordCause of death column, 1850 to 1880 federal mortality schedule
Abel Shaw, 19, M, W, Sept., Continued fever, 24 days
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