![]() ![]() If left untreated, (which most cases were, until a miraculous cure was discovered) it lead to jaundice, seizures, neuropathy, and death. Spring fever, also known as “Spring Disease” in the 1700’s and 1800’s, was an illness that usually occurred in the Springtime and involved fatigue, malaise, easy bruising, bone pain, hemorrhaging of the scalp and gums, and poor wound healing. But, it is not a disabling or fatal disease as it was two or three centuries ago. ![]() ![]() Yes, Spring fever is a painful affliction, that is, modern-day Spring fever. For many of us a “lazy or restless feeling” does not adequately describe the pain and torture of being cooped up inside an office with only windows to look out and see the beauty that Mother Nature has bestowed on us with brightly colored flowers and trees, and birds, and warm sunshine beaming down. Webster’s Dictionary defines Spring fever as “a lazy or restless feeling often associated with the onset of Spring”. We’ve all surely experienced it at one time or another, and many of us have done so on a yearly basis for decades. Springtime is here, and with longer warmer days many of us have begun to suffer from what is referred to as “Spring Fever”. ![]()
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