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Bulam fever

noun

Etymology

The disease was believed to have spread through contagion from a ship, the Hankey, that came from Bolama (then Bulam) in what is now Guinea-Bissau.

Definitions

  1. yellow fever

    • The President and one member (Mr. Pilleau) consider, that one attack of yellow or Bulam fever does give immunity from a second attack, except in rare instances.
    • Dr. Chisholm, the father of the Bulam fever, uses the following language […]

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