He died in Boston on November 6, 1790, of "putrid fever and dysentery".

Imagine my surprise at finding you survived a putrid fever and being a burnt corpse.

The official story had it that the prisoner had died of putrid fever.

Vin's mother died from putrid fever when he was five years old and he has spent time living among native Americans.

Cowardice is catching and will run through an army like the putrid fever.

But on 20 November 1750 he died at the Château de Chambord "of a putrid fever".

She catches cold, which becomes putrid fever.

Illnesses ranged from consumption to what was termed putrid fever.

He died in the National Palace on 1 March 1836, a victim of a "putrid fever" (probably typhus).

In one winter eighteen perished of "a putrid fever", and the clergyman "could not raise a sixpence to save a life."