"You might want to be cleaning your sword there, sir- seeing as how this one died of the spotted fever."
And now that her father had succumbed to spotted fever, she was alone.
It had broken out upon the surface, like the spotted fever, but his system was clear of it elsewhere.
An epidemic of spotted fever contributed to this defeat.
In 1797, his sister Polly died of spotted fever.
A spotted fever is a type of tick-borne disease which presents on the skin.
In 1916 he published an article about spotted fever.
One common distinguishing symptom of spotted fever is swelling, especially around the eyes.
Results from a definitive laboratory test for spotted fever take 10 days or longer, by which time a patient might die.
It is most like a plucked pullet which has died of the spotted fever.