Dengue

a continued fever common in the United States and in the East and West Indies, and Africa. The chief ~—oo are severe pains in forehead, limbs, back, and joints, with an eruption like measles, or rather erysipelas, with painful swellings. The pains are of an agonizing character, and are apt to recur. The acute stage lasts seven or eight days, and then desquamation begins.: Denis, or Denys, St., first Bishop of Paris, in the 8d century. He was sent from Rome, about A. D. 250, to convert the pagans of Gaul. He built many churches, and selected Paris as the seat of his bishopric. During the persecution of the Christians under Aurelian, he was condemned to death by the Roman governor Pescennius, and beheaded in 272.