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Webster 1913 Edition

Typhus

Ty′phus

,
Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] smoke, cloud, stupor arising from fever; akin to [GREEK] to smoke, Skr.
dh[GREEK]pa
smoke.]
(Med.)
A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called
jail fever
,
famine fever
,
putrid fever
,
spottled fever
, etc. See
Jail fever
, under
Jail
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Typhus

TY'PHUS

,
Adj.
[from Gr. to inflame or heat. Hippocrates gave this name to a fever which produced great heat in the eyes.] A typhus disease or fever is accompanied with great debility. The word is sometimes used as a noun.

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