Bulam fever

English 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. Noun - en obsolete en yellow fever en Observations Upon the Bulam Fever Sir William Pym 1815 Authors have in general supposed the Bulam Fever to be only a higher grade of the Bilious Remittent, as this last is of the Intermittent; and the following eight points have been enumerated by Dr. Pinckard as a proof of their identity; to which eight points I beg to make the following replies. https://books.google.com/books?id=BSxAAQAAMAAJ&dq=bulam%20fever&pg=PA223#v=onepage&q=bulam%20fever&f=false en The Medical Times and Gazette 1 512 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=CbdXAAAAMAAJ&dq=bulam%20fever&pg=PA512#v=onepage&q=bulam%20fever&f=false 1852 Observations on that portion of the "Second report on quarantine," by the general board of health J. O. M'William en The American Journal of the Medical Sciences 30 49 July 1855 Dr. Chisholm, the father of the Bulam fever, uses the following language https://books.google.com/books?id=_fRGAQAAMAAJ&dq=bulam%20fever&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q=bulam%20fever&f=false On the Climate and Salubrity of Fort Moultrie and Sullivan's Island, Charleston Harbour, S. C. John B. Porter en Mosquito-borne diseases Viral diseases