CONGESTIVE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Congestive

... ague seldom received very much sympathy at the time, but was considered a fair butt for genial ridicule and chaff, yet even there the trouble had its serious side. Through all those communities there stalked a well-known and dreaded spectre, the so-called "congestive chill," what is now known in technical language as the pernicious malarial paroxysm. These were like the three warnings of death in the old parable. You would probably survive the first and might never have another; but if you had your ...

— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson

... folks took us to Texas durin' of the War. I think my old master said we stayed there three years. My mother died there with a congestive chill. ...

— Slave Narratives: Arkansas Narratives - Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 • Works Projects Administration