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CALENTURE

Volume 5 · 66 words · 1810 Edition

a feverish disorder incident to sailors in hot countries; the principal symptom of which is their imagining the sea to be green fields: hence, attempting to walk abroad in these imaginary places of delight, they are frequently lost. Vomiting, bleeding, a spare diet, and the neutral salts, are recommended in this disorder; a fling vomit commonly removing the delirium, and the cooling medicines completing the cure.