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What is a calenture?

What is a calenture? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
  2. A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy meadows and wishes to dive overboard into them.
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This day likewise, I had a stroke of the sun, which occasioned a burning fever or calenture.
There'd be no ague or calenture, no tick disease or cholera, no canker or malaria.
A mild fit of calenture seizes him, in which he deems that the ground so far below, is on a level with the tower, and would as lief walk off the tower into the air as not.
The evidence relative to yellow fever, or calenture, during this period in Virginia is contradictory.
But who will judge a man's constitution by the symptoms of calenture?
They presently catch fever, or a calenture, or a cramp, and so they die.

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