Daily AncestorTypho-malarial fever
Typho-malarial fever was a Civil War era diagnosis for a fever thought to be part typhoid and part malaria; later doctors decided most cases were really typhoid.
Union army surgeon Joseph Janvier Woodward wrote about typho-malarial fever, and the term filled army medical reports during the war. It described a long fever with the chills of malaria and the bowel signs of typhoid.
By about 1900 physicians argued that most such cases were simply typhoid. The term still turns up on soldiers' and civilians' records into the late 1800s.
As seen in a recordCivil War hospital register or pension file
Pvt. Jno. Moss, 22, Typho-malarial fever
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