tertian

• Profoundly superstitious, he taught, for example, that the herb, Verbena officinalis_, vervain, would cure tertian or quartan fevers according to the manner in which it was divided or cut. —  Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
• Hardly were the words out of my mouth when his lordship leaped from the bed, and in the scantiest drapery imaginable, seized me by the collar, inflicting such a shaking as I would willingly have exchanged for a tertian ague from the Pontine marshes. —  Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
• It might be that the fever was not quotidian, but tertian, and that it would return next day. —  The Secret of the Island
• Saturday to Tuesday the symptoms continued ever worsening: a kind of tertian ague, "bastard tertian" as the old Doctors name it; for which it was ordered that his Highness should return to Whitehall, as to a more favorable air in that complaint. —  The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
• 'I have had dozens of fevers, and dread them little more than a cold,' said Winwood Reade; indeed, the English catarrh is quite as bad as the common marsh-tertian of the Coast. —  To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative

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