quartan malaria. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
When in quartan fevers blood flows from the nostrils it is a bad symptom. From Wordnik.com. [Aphorisms] Reference
In fixing this date he knew that Bayard was ill at the time with a quartan fever. From Wordnik.com. [Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach] Reference
Guianerius gives an instance in one so caused by a quartan ague, and Montanus consil. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Miles the landlord down with a quartan fever, but ill-served by his staff if such is the result of his absence. From Wordnik.com. [A different flesh]
Iollas had died soon after he got home from Asia, of a quartan fever picked up in the Babylonian swamps; he had gone down quickly, showing little fight. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
But what more regular than a tertian or quartan fever?. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology] Reference
Seneca considers it as able to remove the quartan ague. From Wordnik.com. [Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction] Reference
May the quartan fever shake that tormentor of a tailor!. From Wordnik.com. [Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme] Reference
In the autumn of 1515 he was attacked by a quartan fever. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3] Reference
But the result of the experiments was nothing better than a quartan-ague. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852] Reference
I have had two quartan agues since my return; but I hope, by the favor of. From Wordnik.com. [Amerigo Vespucci] Reference
Rodriguez was languishing under a quartan ague, when he was recalled from. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16] Reference
Gilbert, which was sore vexed with a fever quartan from the month of July to. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 6] Reference
Lope de Llanos kisses your Lordship's hands; he is very ill with quartan ague. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Besides all this, bouts of quartan ague have gone on for more than twenty turns. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
Captain Lope Llanos kisses your Excellency's hands; he is very ill with quartan ague. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
When we reached Lyons I was already ill, and my lad Ascanio had taken a quartan fever. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini] Reference
It was asked, "Why tertian and quartan fevers were like certain short-lived insects.". From Wordnik.com. [Autocrat of the Breakfast Table] Reference
He had been unwell for some days with quartan fever, and tried bleeding, but it did him no good. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference
In consequence of the long fatigues of his second voyage, Vespucci was taken ill of the quartan ague. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
Who, being attacked with a quartan fever, yet left his bed to command the greater part of his company. From Wordnik.com. [The Journey to the Camp at Amines. 1558] Reference
M'Brair sat by the cheek of the peat-fire and shivered, for he had a quartan ague and this was his day. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Morals] Reference
These have great memories, are liable to quartan agues, and stronger sympathies of parts with each other. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Hence intermittent fevers, especially those of the quartan form, are very common in the town in that season. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Syria and the Holy Land] Reference
Through this estrangement a man sometimes falls into a fever which is called the double quartan, which means indifference. From Wordnik.com. [The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage] Reference
I excused myself, on account of a quartan fever, from which I was suffering at the time, and begged him to allow me to stay away. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville] Reference
Being now freed from his quartan ague, and his strength being again restored, he preached with more vigour and vehemence than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16] Reference
I was not seized in this manner, but, besides other illnesses, got a quartan ague, of which I have not lost the symptoms to this day. From Wordnik.com. [Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives with an account of an attempt made by the Church of the United Brethren, to convert them to Christianity] Reference
If you had had a quartan ague one year or two, you must bear it till you became well again; so you must bear the yoke of the old law. From Wordnik.com. [The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler with Twenty-Five of his Sermons] Reference
The periods of quartan fevers return at solar intervals of seventy-two hours, or at lunar ones of about seventy-four hours and an half. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Some of them are worthy of admiration, and conceal, under apparent disorder, profound harmonies; for instance, a quartan fever is certainly. From Wordnik.com. [Thais] Reference
He found him much weakened with a quartan ague, which had not left him; and embraced him just at the moment when his fit was coming on him. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16] Reference
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