Bilious fever refers to any fever that exhibits the symptom of nausea or vomiting in addition to an increase in internal body temperature and strong diarrhea.
Bilious fever: A term loosely applied to certain intestinal and malarial fevers. See typhus.
Bilious Fever
When a continual, remitting, or intermitting fever is accompanied with a frequent or copious evacuation of bile, either by vomit or stool, the fever is denominated bilious. [Buchan1785].
A sick farmer took it for an attack of "bilious fever," and became quite ill. When the symptoms resolved, he discovered that his prior illness had also disappeared.
 See also: Fever, Symptom, Death, Cancer, Ulcers
  
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