[Sp. (and Pg.) vómito, ad. L. vomitus, f. vomĕre to VOMIT.] The yellow fever in its virulent form, when it is usually accompanied by black vomit. Cf. VOMIT sb. 2 b.
1833. Cycl. Pract. Med., II. 290/2. He even says that during the eight years preceding 1794, there was not a single example of the vomito.
1843. Prescott, Mexico (1850), I. 2. The season of the bilious fever,—vomito, as it is called,—which scourges these coasts.
1869. E. A. Parkes, Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3), 472. When paroxysmal fever and the true yellow fever or vomito were thought to own a common cause.
