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^[1]:

     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^[2], 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, 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^[3], volume 30, page 49:

     Dr. Chisholm, the father of the Bulam fever, uses the following language […]