The essence of my strain of prison fever wasn't mysterious, just persistent.

The principal physical disabilities are prison fever, colds, pneumonia, lung diseases and rheumatism.

Is there a danger of prison fever, sergeant?

The next day this poor convict was taken with the prison fever, and in one short week he was a corpse.

When I left France to follow Lafayette I never dreamed that I might die of prison fever in a hole like this.

A place of horror even to a well man, the old Provost meant unspeakable tortures to a youth slowly recovering from prison fever.

Thornhill loved to feel the child in his arms, against his chest, but told Sal not to bring him again, there was prison fever about.

"It is only the prison fever," the young man answered; "food and this cold will drive that out of me.