α. 1600s– typhomania.
β. 1600s typhomany.
typhomanian.
/ˌtʌɪfə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/, U.S. /ˌtaɪfoʊˈmeɪniə/, /ˌtaɪfəˈmeɪniə/ Medicine. Now historical.
Delirium occurring in a patient who is also lethargic or stuporous; spec. that occurring in typhus, typhoid, and other infectious diseases (cf. typhoid state n. at typhoid adj. and n. Compounds 1). In later use also: severe acute mania.
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1657 N. Culpeper & W. Rand tr. J. Riolan Sure Guide iv. ii. 132 But if one that has a sleeping Disease upon him, every time he is awakened, does rave, and talk idlely, the Disease is called Typhomania [L. Typhomania].
1778 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic (ed. 2) I. ii. iv. §286 In the Nosology I have added the typhomania to the character of Phrenitis.
1829 N.Y. Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 101 The author..insists that, although the exanthematous eruption in the yellow fever is different from the ordinary symptom of European typhus, the typhomania and affection of the liver are invariably present.
1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. i. 182 Occasionally the delirium [in typhus] is violent and maniacal,..but much more commonly it is of the low muttering kind, known by the name of ‘typhomania’.
1901 Lancet 28 Sept. 864/1 The special form of insanity known as ‘acute delirium’, or typhomania, should also be included in this group.
1979 Bull. Hist. Med. 53 512 Cullen stressed the insidious onset of this low grade fever, the headaches, and gradual appearance of delirium or ‘typhomania’.
2000 O. Reiss Med. in Colonial Amer. viii. 355 It [sc. madness] was different from delirium or typhomania (delirium with stupor present with fevers), because these were temporary and were associated with great prostration of strength.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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