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The symptoms are a general coldness, soreness, and stiffness of the limbs and body, with violent tertian ague [i.e., shaking fits every other day]. Its fatal termination is attributable to its tendency to attack the liver, which is generally affected in a few days after the symptoms are developed.
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The summer crops were a disaster, yet Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) died of a tertian ague in September 1658, just as another severe winter was setting in. ... P. vivax and P. falciparum both have a tertian periodicity, so it is unclear which species was responsible for tertiary ague in England.
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Four species can infect humans: P. vivax, causing vivax or benign tertian malaria; P. ovale, a very similar form found chiefly in central Africa that causes ... The primary symptom of all types of malaria is the "malaria ague" (chills and fever), which corresponds to the "birth" of the new generation of the parasite.
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He says, that two or three doses rarely fail to arrest the progress of a distinct tertian, or quartan ague. Should a farther repetition of this remedy be requisite, it will be attended with this advantage, that the disorder will be less likely to return, than if it were stopped by the bark alone.
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The roots boiled and taken in posset drink cause vomiting and are used with good success at the appearance of approaching agues, especially the tertian ague, which is frequently caught in the springtime. A plaster made of the roots with parched barley meal dissolves hard swellings and imposthumes, being applied thereto;
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Marvell died on 16th August 1678 at his house in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury while receiving treatment for the tertian ague - although it was rumoured at the time that he had been poisoned by Jesuits.
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Zeitgeist · Word of the day · Blog · Random word ... American Heritage Dictionary ... tertian ague hasn't been tagged yet.
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