The ships in themselves were insanitary, and the crews suffered very much from what they called calentures, (or fevers such as typhus and typhoid), and the scurvy. ❋ John Masefield (1922)
Such a complaint I read of those isles of Cape Verde, fourteen degrees from the Equator, they do male audire: [1520] One calls them the unhealthiest clime of the world, for fluxes, fevers, frenzies, calentures, which commonly seize on seafaring men that touch at them, and all by reason of a hot distemperature of the air. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In which voyage what we endured (being taken by long calms), by scurvy, calentures, hunger, and thirst, no tongue can tell. ❋ Unknown (2007)
His “business was to sail the ship, and not to cure calentures.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
Africa, those Indian capes and islands, are commonly molested with calentures, fluxes, and much distempered by reason of their fruits. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The sick men recovering from their calentures "were thoroughly revived" by these tales. ❋ John Masefield (1922)
These lower people will not build fine houses to adorn my city, and because they choose to live on in their squalid, unsightly kennels, there have been calentures and other sicknesses amongst them, which make them disinclined for work. ❋ Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1905)
I had several men die in my ship of calentures, so that I was forced to get recruits out of Barbadoes, and the Leeward Islands, where I touched by the direction of the merchants who employed me, which I had soon too much cause to repent: for I found afterwards that most of them had been buccaneers. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Then, wi 'pretty nigh half of our company down wi' fevers and calentures taken on the ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
Secondly and more clearly, men tend to vent their ephebic calentures more in the field of action. ❋ G. Stanley Hall (1885)
I remember now to have heard the Spaniards say, how these calentures lay always in the low ground, and never came more than ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
His "business was to sail the ship, and not to cure calentures." ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
The most prevalent diseases of this country are dysenteries, hot fevers, and calentures, in all which they prescribe abstinence as a principal remedy. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
I had several men who died in my ship of calentures, so that I was forced to get recruits out of Barbadoes and the Leeward ❋ Unknown (1726)
I had several men who died in my ship of calentures, so that I was forced to get recruits out of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, where I touched, by the direction of the merchants who employed me; which I had soon too much cause to repent: for I found afterwards, that most of them had been buccaneers. ❋ Jonathan Swift (1706)
So cold, that only calentures can heat. uq In his chill veins the fluggifh puddle flows. ❋ Unknown (1779)
-- or may not the theory of calentures be all false, and the results they are reported to cause be in reality the results of morbid impulses? ❋ Various (N/A)
