Brain fever describes a medical condition where a part of the brain becomes inflamed and causes symptoms that present as fever. The terminology is dated, and is encountered most often in Victorian literature. Conditions that may be described as brain fever include:
In Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story The Crooked Man, the term is used to refer to a woman suffering from a state of shock when her husband has been murdered.
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