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brain fever
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synonyms: encephalitis, meningitis ???
tags: [obsolete] [pathosis]
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Definition:(Med.), fever in which the brain is specially affected; any acute cerebral affection attended by fever.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---a loose popular term which includes congestion of the brain and its membranes, delirium tremens, and inflammation of the brain substance itself.Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)---basically encephalitis or meningitis
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Poor child, the subject evidently enthralled her with a terrible fascination; and I feared that the excitement she was in might bring on a brain fever.
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But Emma, awaking, cried out—
"The letter! the letter!"
They thought she was delirious; and she was by midnight. Brain-fever had set in.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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he fainted, and had brain fever and convulsions. A month after, when he had hardly recovered, he went off to the Crimea, and there he was shot.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)
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