A remittent fever.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : remittent symptoms.    From Dictionary.com. 

It is usually of the remittent type and may continue for some months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference

As might be expected, remittent and intermittent fevers are very prevalent in the autumn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829] Reference

At times recovery takes place suddenly, but as a rule it is gradual and remittent in character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference

January, which was continued for the first three days; then the remittent character developed itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814] Reference

In the United States of America an infusion of apple tree bark is given with benefit during intermittent, remittent, and bilious fevers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

He had a remittent chronic intestinal catarrh, with — noticeably during the periods of exacerbation — abundant discharge of a glairy mucus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Electric Bath] Reference

He found them also in his own blood associated with the symptoms of remittent fever, quinine always diminishing or removing the threatening symptoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference

He observed that the popular use of cinchona bark the source of quinine for the treatment of intermittent and remittent fevers actually brought on these fevers as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference

Typhoid fevers, typhoid pneumonias, diphtheria, and remittent fevers were prevalent, while now and then the malaria manifested itself in the form of the terrible spotted fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference

I was suffering from a low remittent, well known in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Capitol and its inmates, by who enjoyed the hospitalities of the government for a "season] Reference

It may be either intermittent or remittent in character.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

The excitement came back upon her like a remittent fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Awakening and Selected Short Stories] Reference

Acute pain is generally remittent and not fixed to one spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

They are generally remittent and intermittent bilious fevers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference

He had been suffering from remittent fever of a low typhoid type.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts] Reference

In remittent fever the decoction is also used as a liniment for the whole body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

The temperature is markedly remittent, varying from 103° to 106° F. (Fig. 196).    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Among them was one poor young fellow dying, in the next room to mine, of remittent fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

The principal diseases are continued, remittent, and intermittent fevers, diarrhoea, and dysentery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People] Reference

The night after my arrival I was laid down with remittent fever, and a few days later I nearly died.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

His throes in bringing it forth had been severe and remittent; and at last we may almost conclude that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765] Reference

The eastern part of the State must be to a greater or less degree subject to intermittent and remittent fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guide to Capitalists and Emigrants: Being a Statistical and Descriptive Account of the Several Counties of the State of North Carolina, United States of America; Together with Letters of Prominent Citizens of the State in Relation to the Soil, Climate, Productions, Minerals, &C., and an Account of the Swamp Lands of the State] Reference

The remittent fever is the most formidable of our autumnal diseases, especially when of a highly bilious type.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference

Clearly it was a case of remittent fever, such as occurs in men who have spent a great part of their lives in the tropics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Cloomber] Reference

Page 115 intermediate between the east with its intermittent and remittent fevers, and the west with its more inflammatory disorders.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guide to Capitalists and Emigrants: Being a Statistical and Descriptive Account of the Several Counties of the State of North Carolina, United States of America; Together with Letters of Prominent Citizens of the State in Relation to the Soil, Climate, Productions, Minerals, &C., and an Account of the Swamp Lands of the State] Reference

Field describes a boy with bilious remittent fever who would drink until his stomach was completely distended and then call for more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

In Concan they use the juice of the leaves as a liniment in remittent fevers, rubbing the hepatic region and in fact the entire body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Field 9.122 describes a boy with bilious remittent fever who would drink until his stomach was completely distended and then call for more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

I have recently observed this plant growing profusely around Charleston Neck, where intermittent and remittent fevers are notoriously prevalent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

"Poor Wedderfelt is fast going, sir -- cold at the extremities already very bad fever -- the bilious remittent of the country, of the worst type.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference

Fernando Po, even more than on the mainland, having periodic outbursts of a more serious type than the normal intermittent and remittent of the Coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

During the summer and autumn, cholera infantum with children in large towns, diarrhoea, cholera morbus, dysentery, intermittent and remittent bilious fevers prevail.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference