Definition of "fevers" []

• Plural form of fever. (noun)

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• "People do, you know, do odd things in fevers that they would never do at other times."
• "I've knowed mad people as foamed at the mouth and rolled their eyes and would have done themselves an injury but for a strait-jacket; and I've knowed folks in fevers unreasonable enough, but they kept in their beds in a dark room, and didn't know their own mothers."
• "I have seen, in fevers (and felt, when I was a fever patient myself), the most acute suffering produced from the patient (in a hut) not being able to see out of window, and the knots in the wood being the only view."