"The Indian Gentleman, Mr Carrisford, in Francis Hodgson Burnett's "A Little Princess", and Captain Crewe, Sarah's father, both experience brain fever when they think their investments in the diamond mines have become worthless.A technician accuses a robot of having "brain-fever" in Isaac Asimov's 1945 short story "Escape", included in the 1950 collection "I, Robot".