noun. Inflammation of the diaphragm.

noun. Encephalitis. No longer in scientific use.

noun. In medicine, an inflammation of the brain or its meninges, attended with acute fever and delirium.

noun. Delirium; frenzy.

noun. Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis.

noun. See Frenzy.

noun. Madness, especially as caused by inflammation of the brain; meningitis.

noun. inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use)

"And many were attacked with impairment or loss of speech; at first, those in the commencement of phthisis, but also persons in ardent fever and in phrenitis."

inflammation  redness  rubor  

West Nile encephalitis  acute hemorrhagic encephalitis  acute inclusion body encephalitis  cerebromeningitis  encephalitis lethargica  

cephalitis  frenzy