sun-fever

English

Noun

sun-fever (countable and uncountable, plural sun-fevers)

1. Alternative form of sun fever
   • 1885, Henry Walter Bellew, The History of Cholera in India from 1862 to 1881, page 815:

     But, however this may be, the grounds upon which I base my belief that "chill" in the one case, and "heat" in the other, is the most common exciting cause of these maladies, respectively, are furnished by the fact that malarious fevers are found to prevail with a periodicity corresponding with that of the annual seasons of greatest change in the weather elements, namely, the spring and autumn, and moreover, with a periodicity corresponding, at least in the Punjab, for which province the statistics have been tabulated, with the triennial cycles of rainfall -- a peculiarity in which they coincide with cholera -- whilst sun-fever or sunstroke is found to prevail with a periodicity corresponding with the season of highest temperature.

   • 1898, George Warrington Steevens, With Kitchener to Khartum, page 214:

     But they were not acclimatised, nor were the Guards, so that they sent nearly a hundred cases -- mostly mild sun-fever -- into hospital in a week.

   • 1898, George Milbry Gould, James Hendrie Lloyd, The Philadelphia Medical Journal - Volume 2, page 456:

     Sun-fever has incapacitated our troops more than anything else in Cuba.