defluxo

Updated: June 23, 2025

The disorder has been known to break out when the visitors were entirely free from it the simple contact of civilised men, in some mysterious way, being sufficient to create it. It is generally fatal to the Juris and Passes; the first question the poor, patient Indians now put to an advancing canoe is, "Do you bring defluxo?"

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

The principal cause of their decay in numbers seems to be a disease which always appears amongst them when a village is visited by people from the civilised settlements a slow fever, accompanied by the symptoms of a common cold, "defluxo," as the Brazilians term it, ending probably in consumption.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons