[Deduced from TYPHUS, TYPHOID.] Typh fever (also simply typh): see quots.; typh poison, poison causing typh fever.
1861. T. K. Chambers, Lect. (1864), vi. 70. You saw a case of continued low fever (or as I shall call it for shortness Typh-fever) admitted four days ago. Ibid., 75. I have been led to believe that the exciting cause of typh-fever enters usually by the digestive canal.
1890. Billings, Med. Dict., Typh fever, a name proposed by Dr. Thomas King Chambers to include both typhus and enteric fevers.
1891. Cent. Dict., Typh-poison.
1900–13. Dorland, Med. Dict., Typh, typh-fever, typhus and typhoid viewed together.
