Mentioned in the dictionaries, including Webster, 1828, only as a disease of quadrupeds.
1793. If an old maid chances to have the heaves.—Mass. Spy, Aug. 8.
1857. I marked the trees clean from Roxbury to this plantation, and put up the fust cabin here, with a little help from a poor feller (looking at Cabel) that’s now bad with the heaves.—J. G. Holland, ‘The Bay-Path,’ p. 69.
