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chained_bear commented on the word quartan fever
"Other drugs had several applications that don't necessarily have much to do with each other. Lapis lazuli, according to Circa instans, was effective at purging melancholia but also against quartan fever (malaria)."
Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 71
November 28, 2017