ague

• “An encouraging sign was that his health was none too good; he complained of what he called ague, and I had hopes that he'd be in no shape to start a war that summer.”

  Flashman and the angel of the lord

• “According to the Septuagint, "ague" is "the jaundice," which disorders the eyes and produces great depression of spirits.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “The brother who has been suffering from ague is probably her elder brother John.”

  Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)

• “What are commonly termed ague cakes, are diseases of the spleen, and sometimes terminates in Inflammation of the Spleen.”

  The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.

• “She deplores British developers who would have used technical expertise to drain British wetlands for their own material gain, and thus exterminate certain species; she examines that interesting psychological place where scientific method and religious belief collide (when, for instance, the hated Jesuits discover the quinine that could cure the dreaded "ague" -- later determined to be malaria -- but Protestant prejudice prevented its use).”

  The Washington Post: Fiona Mountain's 'Lady of the Butterflies' about a 17th-century female scientist

• “Malaria was originally called ague or marsh fever because it emanated from warm-weather swamps.”

  A Convenient Untruth

• “The ague, which is usually accompanied by fever, is of a kind very difficult to shake off, gradually weakening the sufferer till he sinks under its influence; the natives themselves are by no means free from its strokes, to which attacks every stranger who remains for many days in the vicinity of the marshes is liable.”

  A Peep into Toorkisthhan

• “I may mention in explanation of this question of mine that, the year before, I had been confined to bed with a sharp attack of a sort of tertian ague, which is the scourge of most tropical countries.”

  The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea

• “He thought that, perhaps, it was going to have some kind of fit, or an attack of ague, which is not an uncommon complaint among animals in his part of the country, and he was preparing to give it a dose of quinine, when suddenly it reared up violently, and before he could stop it, was careering along the road at lightning speed.”

  Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter

• “I went to visit some people at Kensington: Ophy Butler's wife [9] there lies very ill of an ague, which is a very common disease here, and little known in Ireland.”

  The Journal to Stella

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