| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Expression | 1. (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever , and ship fever .[Websters]. | |
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| Jail fever | (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever , and ship fever . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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