Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TY'PHUS, n. [Gr. τυποω, to render stupid, to burn with a smothered fire, and with more smoke than flame; hence τυπος, stupor or coma.]

A genus of simple continuous fevers, essentially attended with a greater or less degree of atony or exhaustion, throughout their whole course, and from beginning to end. A preternaturally weak pulse always attends all these fevers. They are liable to be attended with coma in some of their stages.