Brain Fever

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“a sharp touch of brain-fever” [MUSG]   </h4> <div>Inspired by two sources of Sherlockian medical scholarship, we decided to discuss brain fever. What was brain fever, medically speaking?</div> <div><br /> <div> <div>And why does it only rear its head in Victorian literature? Was it an actual affliction, or just a literary device? It's just a Trifle.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div>Please consider supporting our efforts through <a href="https://patreon.com/trifles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patreon</a> or <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=bhUDy2roW_3n5LZwv5duCDwvWFIVBL71jtY0R-IhfZ0jZ2fTPRfEb4rCxk8VMuYqzRoc1G" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PayPal</a>.</div> <div> </div> <div style= "background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div style="margin: 0px;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman';"> <div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> </div> </div> <h3><strong>Links / Notes</strong></h3> <ul> <li style="text-align: left;">This episode: <a href= "https://ihose.co/trifles223">ihose.co/trifles223</a></li> <li data-original-attrs="{"style":""}"><a href= "https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3712024660904887750/1566872241971037369" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-original-attrs= "{"data-original-href":"https://daily.jstor.org/did-victorians-really-get-brain-fever/","target":"_blank"}"> Did Victorians Really Get Brain Fever?</a> (JSTOR Daily)</li> <li style="text-align: left;">Reference: "Brain Fever" by Stephen Tolins, <em>The Baker Street Journal</em>, Vol. 41, No. 2 (1991)</li> <li style="text-align: left;"><em><a href= "https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2015/12/30/nerve-and-knowledge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nerve and Knowledge: Doctors, Medicine, and the Sherlockian Canon</a></em> (BSI Press)</li> </ul> <h3><strong> </strong></h3> <h3><stron