Footnote 130: The legend of the Crowland devils had its origin, no doubt, in the "cramps and rheums and shivering agues and burning fevers" or in the hallucination caused by these ailments.
At Upsal and Stockholm agues are common, and at Lund acute fevers terminate in that complaint.
Agues are very uncommon in this country, but St. Anthony's fire seems to be proportionably more frequent, insomuch that every body complains of being troubled with it.
The Diseases this Land is most subject to are Agues and Feveurs, and sometimes to Bloody-fluxes.
I have pared the devil's nails forty times, roasted them in raven's eggs, and cured agues with them.
Home without Bootes, And in foule Weather too, How scapes he Agues in the Deuils name?
These three kinds of agues are thus distinguished; the first is not attended with any tumid or indurated viscus, which the people call an ague cake, and which is evident to the touch.
A syrup made of the juice and sugar, cures the yellow jaundice, eases the head-ache that comes of heat, and tempers the heat of the liver and stomach, and is profitably given in long and hot agues that rise in choler and blood.
It helps agues of all sorts, and the yellow jaundice, as also the bots in cattle; when kine are bitten on the udder by any venomous beast, do but stroke the place with the decoction of any of these, and it will instantly heal them.
I know it will cure agues without this curiosity, if a wise man have the handling of it; otherwise a cart load will not do it.
Hence, in marshy countries at cold seasons, which have succeeded hot ones, and amongst those, who have lived on innutritious and unstimulating diet, theseagues are most frequent.
In many diseases this method is the most successful; hence the bark in aguesproduces more certain effect after the previous exhibition of emetics.
Hence quartan agues are formed in those of this temperament, as explained in Section XXXII.
The first of these are generally known as AGUES; the second differ from agues in there being one or more marked exacerbations and remissions of the symptoms every 24 hours, but without any entire intermission.
Agues are of two sorts, curable and incurable; the curable are those that come in a common way of Providence, the incurable those that are sent more immediately from God in the way of special judgment, as instances adduced from Scripture show.
Agues also continued to be frequent in April, both in Dublin and in several parts of the country.
Talbor's first chapter is a fluent account of how aguesare produced by "obstructions" of the spleen.
These agues were first noticed in London in the spring and autumn of 1780, but they infested various parts of England a little earlier.
Sydenham and his learned colleagues were not ignorant of the endemic agues of marshy localities, but they made little account of them in comparison with the aguish or intermittent fevers that came in epidemics all over England.
That which stands out most clearly in the English naming from the earliest times is the idea of something new or strange; but the newness or strangeness pertained quite as much to the agues as to the catarrhs.
In 1754 the spring agues were frequent in Kilkenny and Carlow, though rare in Dublin.
We had fevers and agues constantly with us, and one time so sharp an epidemic of small-pox that every man of us, will he nil he, had to submit to the inoculation then newly introduced as a preventive against that most horrible disease.
In the summer pestilential fevers and agues crept out of the marshes and wasted us.
The next winter, 1557, the quarterne agues continued in like manner, or more vehemently than they had done the last yere.
Its mean temperature is of course considerably (4 degrees) below that of the valley, but though so cool, agues prevail after the rains.
Such indeed is the character of the climate throughout the Jheels, where fevers and agues are rare; and though no situations can appear more malarious to the common observer than Silhet and Cachar, they are in fact eminently salubrious.
But many of those Agues which had continued for some Time, especially with those Invalids who came from Embden, or who had brought on frequent Relapses by their own Irregularities, were very obstinate.
Account of Agues being cured by the Application of Poultices of recent Erigerum (Groundsel) applied to the Stomach on the Days free from the Paroxysm, which caused strong Vomiting.
Two Agues which had resisted the Use of the Bark were cured by Powder of Camomile-Flowers, Salt of Wormwood, and diaphoretic Antimony; and one by the Use of the aluminous Powders, with Myrrh.
Agues are endemic in this Place, and great Numbers of the lower Class of People are afflicted with them at all Times of the Year, especially in Spring and Autumn.
The cold Fit is the most dangerous Time of the Paroxysm, and the greatest Part of those who die of Agues die at this Time; one or two Instances of which I saw in the Military Hospital at Edinburgh in the Year 1746.
These Head-Achs we treated entirely asAgues of the same Type.
In Spring 1761, what Agues we had were mostly Tertian, some Quotidian, and but two or three of the Quartan Kind.
Agues are not contagious, but result from the malaria given off during the evaporation from marshy uncultivated land.
The fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridge are almost the only parts of England where agues arc now known; but in many countries, and particularly in the tropics, where the vegetation is very rank, they are still the most common of all diseases.
Agues and Remittent Fevers are now but little known, and scarcely ever fatal, in this country.
It banished a few birds; but we could better spare a few kinds of birds than preserve them with the fevers and the agues which were the inseparable accident of their haunts.
They were not savages, but they were hard men and hardy, for only the fittest survived the agues and the fevers, accustomed to a free out-door life, having its pleasures no less than its trials.
The hot agues were febrile influenzas, and the great laske was dysentery.
In the lines immediately preceding there occur some other names, equally generic: "Byles and boches and brennyng agues Frensyes and foul evils, foragers of kynde.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
