In the summer of 1749, Sergeant fell ill with "a slow or nervous fever, attended with canker, and an inflammation in the throat".

A nervous fever was the consequence; during which he was nursed by the daughter of a poor cottager, under whose roof he lodged.

From my childhood upward I had been subject to hysterical attacks, and twice in early youth I had nearly succumbed to nervous fevers.

He entered the Ludwigsgymnasium in 1850, but a nervous fever prevented him from qualifying for the university through the usual final school examination.

According to doctors, she suffered from some kind of nervous fever.

This delirium gives to typhoid the nickname of "nervous fever".

The messenger of death came to him, in the character of a nervous fever.

This was the commencement of a nervous fever, which confined me for several months.

And then those months of what he chose to call nervous fever.

But when he was 40, the effects of overwork and what was called "nervous fever" brought on a mental breakdown.