It is often called Spanish fever, acclimation fever, red water, black water, distemper, murrain, dry murrain, yellow murrain, bloody murrain, Australian tick fever, and tristeza of South America.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
Forty thousand fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and children are every year carried from the places of their birth, like so many cattle, although the terrible fact is well known that at least one fourth of them must die in the process of acclimation!
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
Jardin de Luxemburg Palais Royal, Tuilleries, acclimation, Jardin des Plantes.
"Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife"
Marietta Holley