Fever
a disease or rather a whole group of diseases, one general, though not universal, symptom of which is increased heat of the skin, besides which the pulse is frequent, and various functions are disturbed. Fevers may be divided into continued, periodic, and eruptive or exanthematous. Under the first are ranked typhus, typhoid, and relapsing fevers; under the second, intermittents and remittents; and under the third variola, rubeola, and scarlatina.
Yellow fever belongs to the remittent rather than the continued type; so also FEZZAN Puerperal fever does hectic fever. should be removed to the class of inflammations.