"Bulam fever" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [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. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Bulam fever (uncountable)
  1. (obsolete) yellow fever Wikipedia link: Bolama Tags: obsolete, uncountable Categories (topical): Viral diseases Categories (lifeform): Mosquito-borne diseases

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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1855 July 10, John B. Porter, “On the Climate and Salubrity of Fort Moultrie and Sullivan's Island, Charleston Harbour, S. C.”, in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, volume 30, page 49",
          "text": "Dr. Chisholm, the father of the Bulam fever, uses the following language […]",
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