pyretology

English

Noun

pyretology

1. A discourse or treatise on fevers; the doctrine of fevers.
   • 1893, “On African Haemoglobinuric Fever”, in Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London:

     Therefore, if the pyretology of Europe includes some five or six fevers, it is not improbable that the pyretology of the tropics includes as many, if not more.

Related terms

• pyretic

References

• “pyretology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.