The term "fever" has been used over the centuries for an infectious disease that caused acute and prolonged fever, associated with rashes similar to millet cereal grain, from which militarism, and which could lead to death.
With the successive advances in medicine, the milestone, of popular origin, fell quite disused, supplanted by other more specific names of pathologies. There is still a disease called tuberculosis militia today.
The diagnosis reported in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death report indicated, as a cause, milestone. Notemodify wikitesto
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