Daily AncestorRemittent fever
Remittent fever was a fever that eased each day but never returned to normal; in old records it was often a severe form of malaria.
Remittent fever describes a fever whose temperature rises and falls during the day but stays above normal throughout. Many infections produce this pattern, including typhoid.
In nineteenth-century American records, remittent and bilious remittent fever usually meant a more dangerous malarial fever, common in the South and along rivers. It overlapped with bilious fever.
As seen in a recordCause of death column, 1850 to 1880 federal mortality schedule
Calvin Rhea, 25, M, W, Single, Miss., September, Remittent fever, 11 days
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