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Definition of Gibraltar fever

1. Noun. Infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibraltar Fever

Literary usage of Gibraltar fever

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1807)
"IT seems that this author has been seize«! with a passion for curing the Gibraltar fever. Not that he has had the slightest opportunity (as far as we can ..."

2. The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review by John Henry Newman, James Shergold Boone (1807)
"... of the Gibraltar fever, and of epidemic fevers in general, in parts. The part before u» embraces general ..."

3. The Lancet (1898)
"... Mediterranean fever, Gibraltar fever, Rock fever Neapolitan fever, Gastric remittent fever, Bilious remittent fever, Gastro-bilious fever. ..."

4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1830)
"The contagious qualities of the Gibraltar fever, it is quite clear, were very much under controul; they were evidently diminished, and in many instances ..."

5. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"When it occurs at Gibraltar it is called " Gibraltar fever " or "Rock Fever," and when in Italy, " Neapolitan Fever." The malady is due to an infection by ..."

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