I think it says sun stroke. Not sure exactly what this is, but my gt grandfather Charles' 2nd father-in-law suffered from this, and had bouts of insanity. He was briefly a suspect for the Jack the Ripper murders and ended his days in an asylum.
I'd guess that "Sun stroke" must be a daytime version, equivalent to "lunacy" at night?
I think that porphyria is exacerbated by sunlight - will have to go and google - and there's a school of thought that says that that was what King George (of "The Madness of ...") suffered from.
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