night-fever

Updated: April 30, 2025

When he had heard all Ulla's complaints, and ordered exactly what she wished large doses of camphor and corn-brandy to keep off the night-fever and daily cough, he was ready to hear whatever else Erica had to ask, for Ulla had hinted that Erica wanted advice. "I do not mind Ulla hearing my words," said Erica. "She knows my trouble."

Harriet Martineau - Feats on the Fiord: The third book in "The Playfellow"

As a rule the barbarian enjoys his night chat and smoke round the fire all the more because he drinks or dozes through the better part of the day. There is a physical reason for the preference. The absence of light stimulus, and the changes which follow sunset seem to develope in him a kind of night-fever as in the nervous temperament of Europe.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1