‖ typhomania Path.
(taɪfəʊˈmeɪnɪə)
[mod.L., ad. Gr. τῡϕωµανία (Hippocrates, Galen), f. τῦϕος (see typhus) + µανία madness, mania; by modern writers taken as f. typhus (in the mod. sense) + mania.]
Delirium accompanied with stupor, occurring in typhus and other fevers.
| 1693 tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Typhomania, a Delirium with a Phrensy, and a Lethargy. 1783 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Phys. §293 In the Nosology, I added the Typhomania to the character of Phrenitis. 1822–9 Good Study Med. (ed. 3) IV. 622 Imperfect lethargy,..the Typhomania of the Greek writers; the Coma Vigil of many later pathologists. 1857 Dunglison Med. Lex., Typhomania, the kind of delirium common in typhus. 1876 J. S. Bristowe The. & Pract. Med. (1878) 185 Occasionally the delirium [in typhus] is violent and maniacal,..but much more commonly it is of the low muttering kind, known by the name of ‘typhomania’. |