Miller wrote: “To dream that you are stricken with this malady, signifies that you are worrying over trifling affairs…” Compare 2 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Fever · Heading 777; source lines 9097–9110 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are stricken with this malady, signifies that you are worrying over trifling affairs while the best of life is slipping past you, and you should pull yourself into shape and engage in profitable work.
To dream of seeing some of your family sick with fever, denotes temporary illness for some of them. See Illness.
Katherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Fever · Printed p. 216; NLM OCR lines 9961–9965 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
An evil dream of ambitious desires, extravagance, etc. (Gypsy); the restlessness and delirium accompanying fever would justify this interpretation of a dream undoubtedly attributable to the physical condition.
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