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Pencroft again began to hope. Gideon Spilett said nothing. It might be that the fever was not quotidian, but tertian, and that it would return next day. Therefore, he awaited the next day with the greatest anxiety. It might have been remarked besides that during this period Herbert remained utterly prostrate, his head weak and giddy. Another symptom alarmed the reporter to the highest degree.
The tertian of Egypt, so fatal among the French troops, now numbered him among its victims, and he looked worn and exhausted, like one after weeks of illness.
But a tertian ague, with which he was seized shortly after his arrival, compelled him to remain for some days inactive in Lombardy a delay of which the neighboring powers availed themselves to prepare for defence.
W. Lauder Lindsay, 'Edinburgh Vet. With respect to insects see Dr. Laycock, "On a General Law of Vital Periodicity," 'British Association, 1842. Dr. Macculloch, 'Silliman's North American Journal of Science, vol. XVII. page 305, has seen a dog suffering from tertian ague.
I had made up my mind to stay at Fort Andrews for a time, partly to fulfil an engagement with a friend whom I had arranged to meet here, and to whom I shall shortly have to refer more at length, and partly to recruit my strength, a tertian ague having seized me, which much debilitated my frame, and made travelling very irksome.
The parasites that cause the malarial fevers are Sporozoans and belong to the genus Plasmodium. Other names such as Hæmamoeba and Laverania have been used for them, but the term Plasmodium is the one now most commonly employed. The three most common species are vivax, malariæ and falciparum, causing respectively the tertian, quartan and remittent fevers.
If the cause, which induces the second fit of quiescence, recurs the succeeding day, the quotidian fever is produced; if not till the alternate day, the tertian fever; and if not till after seventy-two hours from the first fit of quiescence, the quartan fever is formed.
Life on the shores of the Archipelago is far cheaper and happier, and "Ubi bene ibi patria," for such a citizen of the world as he has become. Later he went to Malta, and was detained there by another bad attack of tertian fever.
'I would I could send a flask to our good Prioress, he said, 'to cheer her heart. I went to the Minoresses' as she bade me, to settle some matters of account with her, and after some ado, Sister Mabel came down to the parlour and told me the Prioress is very sick with a tertian fever, and they misdoubt her recovering. 'And the young Lady of St. John.
An attack of tertian ague, which about this time the king suffered, or perhaps feigned, in Segovia, afforded a plausible pretence for postponing his journey, while meantime the preparations for it were carried on with the utmost activity.
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