Brain Fever, a term in common use for inflammation of the lining membranes of the brain, meningitis; or of the brain itself, cerebritis. Brain fever is characterized by violent headache, intolerance of light, excitement, extreme sensitiveness, hyperæmia, delirium, convulsions, and coma.


Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

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