Examples of remittent fever are as following. His thesis was titled "Intermittent and Remittent Fevers". Mild or remittent disease may, sometimes, be safely left untreated. His wife died in Newark on June 7, 1868 of "remittent fever". Fever due to most infectious diseases is remittent. Nutt died on August 24, 1875, from remittent fever, approximately one month after his dismissal.