Word Finder - ague

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An acute fever.

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An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.

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The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever

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fever and ague

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A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.

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Malaria.

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To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

They both contracted ague and fever on the survey from which he died.

A single paroxysm of simple ague may come upon the patient in the midst of good health or it may be preceded by some malaise.

The boy had the disease for three years, ending with tertian ague.

It is generally applied to the definite unhealthy condition of body known by a variety of names, such as ague, intermittent (and remittent) fever, marsh fever, jungle fever, hill fever, "fever of the country" and "fever and ague."

The point common to the various forms of ague is that the paroxysm ceases about midnight or early morning.

The malarial cachexia that follows definite attacks of ague consists in a state of ill-defined suffering, associated with a sallow skin, enlarged spleen and liver, and sometimes.

The latter, besides its more obvious advantages, speedily freed large tracts of country from stagnant water and their inhabitants from ague, and prepared the way for the underground draining which soon after began to be practised.

Another was projected against China, but the old warrior was attacked by fever and ague when encamped on the farther side of the Sihon (Syr-Daria) and died at Atrar (Otrar) on the 17th of February 1405.

It has been used with success as an antiperiodic and antipyretic in ague, and also as a diuretic in gout and kidney affections.

Indians taken down from the sierra get ague and dysentery.

The forms in which neuralgia most commonly shows itself are facial neuralgia or tic douloureux, migraine (hemicrania or brow ague), intercostal neuralgia and sciatica.

The theory was thought out during the rest of the ague fit, drafted the same evening, written out in full in the two succeeding evenings, and sent to Darwin by the next post.

In treating malaria (including ague, remittent fever, intermittent fever, and all its other forms) with this drug certain important facts are to be observed.

Deceased complained of dumb ague, but witness had never been able to detect any positive disease.

He bought a vigna in the Borgo near the Vatican, and thereon erected a sumptuous palace after designs by Bramante; and it was here, in the summer of 1503, that he entertained the pope and Cesare Borgia at a banquet that went on till nightfall despite the unhealthy season of the year, when ague in its most malignant form was rife.

Pierre noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an ague.

These swimsuits, some would ague, harken back to a time and place where the world was a bit more simple and where a woman's body still conveyed an air of mystery.

An attack of the ague sent him home, and on recovery, having resolved to attend a high school and fit himself to become a teacher, he passed the next four years in a hard struggle with poverty and in an earnest effort to secure an education, studying for a short time in the Geauga Seminary atChester, Ohio.

Another paroxysm begins at or near the same hour next day (quotidian ague), which results from a double tertian infection, or the interval may be fortyeight hours (tertian ague), or seventy-two hours (quartan ague).