Usage of "putrid fever"

Usage of putrid fever in English

His disease was a putrid fever, and the apothecary had bled him repeatedly. 
 Tales and Novels — Volume 02 / Popular Tales 

His mistress had died, the day before, of a putrid fever. 
 Sir John Constantine / Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abr... 

Cowardice is catching and will run through an army like the putrid fever.' 
 Micah Clarke / His Statement as made to his three grandchildren ... 

A kind of putrid fever broke out, which attacked people of all races alike. 
 The Naturalist on the River Amazons 

The Squire sickened of a putrid fever; and Madam caught it in nursing him, and died. 
 The Poor Clare 

A violent putrid fever swept off much greater numbers than all the diseases of the camp. 
 The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 / Commander in Chief of th... 

Most of the twenty-three who survived until morning were seized with putrid fever and died very soon afterward. 
 The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions 

Bobby will almost certainly be sent to Hong-Kong, and, as a natural consequence, die of a putrid fever. 
 Nancy: A Novel 

At the autopsy of her body Maestro Pasquali of Florence declared that death was caused by putrid fever! 
 The Tragedies of the Medici 

Mirabeau is dead;(770) ay, miraculously; for it was of a putrid fever (that began in his heart). 
 The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 

Her illness was now pronounced to be a determined putrid fever, and she was continually in a delirious state. 
 Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 

There was lately one very violent putrid fever which, by timely removal of the patient, was prevented from spreading. 
 A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson 

His pulse is low, his hands cold, and he has many symptoms of a person about to have typhus or putrid fever. 
 The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol.... 

Some forty years ago, in a rural parish in New England, a young man lay apparently on his death-bed with a putrid fever. 
 The Wonders of Prayer / A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonde... 

In one winter eighteen perished of "a putrid fever", and the clergyman "could not raise a sixpence to save a life." 
 The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 

The school was moved to Southampton, where the three girls all came down with " putrid fever", thought to be either diphtheria or typhoid. 
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