Camp Fever

This term was used for all of the continuing fevers experienced by the army: Typhoid Fever, Malarial Remittent Fever, and Typho-malarial Fever The last named is a combination of elements from the first two diseases This combination, Typho-malarial Fever, was the characteristic camp fever during the Civil War Symptoms included: a pronounced chill followed by an intermittent fever, abdominal tenderness and nausea, general debility, diarrhea, retention of urine, and furring of the tongue Typhus castrensis in Latin