Season 5 · Episode 223
Brain Fever
Sherlock Holmes: Trifles · Scott Monty & Burt Wolder
April 7, 202127m 18s
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Show Notes
"a sharp touch of brain-fever" [MUSG] Inspired by two sources of Sherlockian medical scholarship, we decided to discuss brain fever. What was brain fever, medically speaking? 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. Please consider supporting our efforts through Patreon or PayPal. Links / Notes
- This episode: ihose.co/trifles223
- Did Victorians Really Get Brain Fever? (JSTOR Daily)
- Reference: "Brain Fever" by Stephen Tolins, The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2 (1991)
- Nerve and Knowledge: Doctors, Medicine, and the Sherlockian Canon (BSI Press)