pyretology
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Noun edit
pyretology
- A discourse or treatise on fevers; the doctrine of fevers.
- 1893, “On African Haemoglobinuric Fever”, in Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London:
- Therefore, if the pyretology of Europe includes some five or six fevers, it is not improbable that the pyretology of the tropics includes as many, if not more.
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References edit
- “pyretology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.