early "typhoid fever", 1793

[Joel S. Berson]

OED has [1657], 1789, 1837 [etc.] for "typhoid fever".

EAI has 1793 specifically for "typhoid fever":  Columbian Centinel,
1793 Oct.16, p.1:  "The symptoms are either those of inflammatory,
remittent, or typhoid fever."
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OED has 1661, 1782, 1800 [etc.] for "typhoid, A. adj.", "Resembling
or characteristic of typhus ... Also: characterized by the
development of the typhoid state; of, relating to, or affected by the
typhoid state."

EAI has 1793 in quotations which perhaps distinguish typhus from
typhoid.  E.g., Federal Gazette, 1793 Oct. 7, p. 2:  "In those few
cases where the disease comes on with typhoid or typhus symptoms ..."

On the other hand, this quotation might be equating the adjectives
"typhus" and "typhoid.
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These two articles are reprinted many times in 1793.

Joel

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