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)

  1. (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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