ship-fever

The woman's heart remained true to its anchorage amid the storm and fire of approaching ship-fever.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

"Not to Bellevue, if that is where your people are dying off so rapidly of ship-fever," he said.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

"Did you ever hear of the ship-fever?" said Potts, in a low voice which sent a sharp trill through every fibre of Brandon's being.

Cord and Creese James De Mille

This ship-fever often terminates in a sort of stupor, in which death generally takes place.

Cord and Creese James De Mille

"I really can't account for it, but it certainly is a case of ship-fever; a very bad case, too."

Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Margaret E. Winslow

Soon after his mother had effected his exchange, she died of ship-fever while caring for the imprisoned Americans at Charleston.

A Brief History of the United States

I am not aware that the ship-fever, which sometimes decimates the emigrants from Europe, has ever prevailed in these African traders.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

At the same time, a sister in charge of the sick poor organized the laity into helping centres. providentially a hospital was in working order when the ship-fever victims arrived from Ireland in the famine year of 1847.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

With them they brought the dreaded typhus or ship-fever.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

So if there's anything in that old 'ship-fever theory,' you ought to be quarantined until it snows.

The Outlet Andy Adams 1897