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Meaning Of Typhus
n.
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.