NOUN
- epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality
How To Use miliary fever In A Sentence
- On his death certificate it was officially recorded that the cause of death was hitziges Frieselfieber, or "heated miliary fever," referring to a rash that looks like millet seeds.
- I have had nothing lately to tell you but illnesses and distempers: there is what they call a miliary fever raging, which has taken off a great many people, It was scarce known till within these seven or eight years, but apparently increases every spring and autumn. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
- The Duke of Devonshire is gone to Spa; he was stopped for a week by a rash, which those who wished it so, called a miliary fever, but was so far from it that if he does not find immediate benefit from Spa, he is to go to Aix-la-Chapelle, in hopes that the warm baths will supple his skin, and promote another eruption. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
