In the novel Sense and Sensibility (1811) by Jane Austen, the character of Marianne Dashwood becomes ill after walking through wet grass. She catches a “violent” cold that makes her “heavy and feverish, with a pain in her limbs, and a cough, and a sore throat.” Eventually, she develops a “putrid fever” and experiences “sleepless pain and delirium.” The medical name for her condition is not named, but some contemporary scholars think Marianne’s illness is typhus or a streptococcal infection.
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