Path. [mod.L., ad. Gr. τῡφωμανία (Hippocrates, Galen), f. τῦφος (see TYPHUS) + μανία madness, MANIA; by modern writers taken as f. TYTHUS (in the mod. sense) + MANIA.] Delirium accompanied with stupor, occurring in typhus and other fevers.
1693. trans. Blancard’s Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Typhomania, a Delirium with a Phrensy, and a Lethargy.
1783. W. Cullen, First Lines Pract. Phys., § 293. In the Nosology, I added the Typhomania to the character of Phrenitis.
1822–9. Good, Study Med. (ed. 3), IV. 622. Imperfect lethargy,… the Typhomania of the Greek writers; the Coma Vigil of many later pathologists.
1857. Dunglison, Med. Lex., Typhomania, the kind of delirium common in typhus.
1876. Bristowe, The. & Pract. Med. (1878), 185. Occasionally the delirium [in typhus] is violent and maniacal,… but much more commonly it is of the low muttering kind, known by the name of ‘typhomania.’
