Bulam fever
English
Etymology
The disease was believed to have spread through contagion from a ship, the Hankey, that came from Bolama (then Bulam) in what is now Guinea-Bissau.
Noun
Bulam fever (uncountable)
- (obsolete) yellow fever
- 1815, Sir William Pym, Observations Upon the Bulam Fever:
- Authors have in general supposed the Bulam Fever to be only a higher grade of the Bilious Remittent, as this last is of the Intermittent; and the following eight points have been enumerated by Dr. Pinckard as a proof of their identity; to which eight points I beg to make the following replies.
- 1852, J. O. M'William, “Observations on that portion of the "Second report on quarantine," by the general board of health”, in The Medical Times and Gazette, volume 1, page 512:
- The President and one member (Mr. Pilleau) consider, that one attack of yellow or Bulam fever does give immunity from a second attack, except in rare instances.
- 1855 July 1, John B. Porter, “On the Climate and Salubrity of Fort Moultrie and Sullivan's Island, Charleston Harbour, S. C.”, in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, volume 30, page 49:
- Dr. Chisholm, the father of the Bulam fever, uses the following language […]
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