Laveran discovered the parasite; Golgi described the cycle of the tertian and quartan forms; the others added new data, especially concerning the more malignant parasites.
In quartan fever the cycle took seventy-two hours, exactly the length of the clinical cycle of that form of malarial disease.
This is the cycle, as described by Golgi, of the tertian and quartan parasite.
The cycle of the tropical or aestivo-autumnal parasite corresponds in plan almost exactly with that of the quartan and ordinary tertian parasite.
Memorandum, Mr. Wyld sayes that the doctors told him that in 1656 there dyed in London of the quartan ague fifteen hundred; N.
He had the plague in the Inner Temple, 1647, and had a grevous quartan ague in Sept.
One painted a lovely picture of monastic repose, picking out only the most attractive features;--why, the quartan fever itself might be made attractive after this fashion.
His residence at 's Hertogenbosch was cut short by an illness, a quartan fever, as he describes it, to which he seems to have been subject.
The quartan fever is due to the presence of Plasmodium malariae, which has an asexual cycle of seventy-two hours, and therefore the fever recurs every three days.
Schizogony usually occurs in the internal organs, particularly in the spleen, instead of in the peripheral circulation, as is the case of the tertian and quartan forms.
These have great memories, are liable to quartan agues, and stronger sympathies of parts with each other.
The periods of quartan fevers return at solar intervals of seventy-two hours, or at lunar ones of about seventy-four hours and an half.
Hence quartan agues are formed in those of this temperament, as explained in Section XXXII.
Being now freed from hisquartan ague, and his strength being again restored, he preached with more vigour and vehemence than ever.
He found him much weakened with a quartan ague, which had not left him; and embraced him just at the moment when his fit was coming on him.
They open obstructions of the liver, and that very gently, and therefore diseases coming thereof, helpquartan agues.
It is held to be good against the biting of serpents, and other venomous beasts, against the plague, and both tertian and quartan agues.
Carduus water succours the head, strengthens the memory, helps such as are troubled with vertigoes and quartan agues, it provokes sweat, strengthens the heart, and all other fevers of choler.
A draught of the decoction taken warm before the fit, first removes, and in time rids away the tertian or quartan agues.
It curesquartan agues, and other diseases of melancholy, and adust choler, by sympathy to Saturn, Mars being exalted in Capricorn.
The liver of a Frog, being dried and eaten, helps quartan agues, or as the vulgar call them, third-day agues.
Some hold that one leaf cures a quotidian, three a tertain, and four a quartan ague, and a hundred to one if it be not Dioscorides; for he is full of whimsies.
Guianerius gives an instance in one so caused by a quartan ague, and Montanus consil.
Fabius Maximus, that renowned consul of Rome, in a battle fought with the king of the Allobroges, at the river Isaurus, was so rid of a quartan ague.
The symptoms of all these are the same, except that in tertian fever, the paroxysms occur every third day; in quartan they occur every fourth day.
Five grains three times a day will nearly always cure tertian and quartan cases, especially if the patient is kept in bed until the time for one or two paroxysms has passed.
Caracalla went even further and punished those who merely wore on their necks amulets for the cure of tertian and quartan fevers.
The three most common species are vivax, malariæ and falciparum, causing respectively the tertian, quartan and remittent fevers.
A Man subject to the Epilepsy was cured of it by a Quartan Ague, and had afterwards no Return of the Disorder.
In Spring 1761, what Agues we had were mostly Tertian, some Quotidian, and but two or three of the Quartan Kind.
This I began; but while I was working at it I caught a quartan fever.
When we reached Lyons I was already ill, and my lad Ascanio had taken a quartan fever.
The hair of a man torn from the cross was used as a remedy for quartan fever.
It could hardly have been leprosy, for both the royal sufferers recovered, Coeur de Lion being killed eight years later at the siege of Chalus, and Philippe Auguste dying of quartan ague twenty-four years after Richard.
It has been observed in intermitting fevers, that paroxysms of the quotidian recur in the morning, the tertian at noon, and the quartan in the afternoon; in no instance do they take place at night.
It is the general rule, with frequent exceptions, that the quotidian paroxysm comes on in the morning, the tertian about noon, and the quartan in the afternoon.
Quotidian intermittent is on the whole more common than tertian in hot countries; elsewhere the tertian is the usual type, and quartan is only occasional.
Another rule is that the quartan has the longest cold stage, while its paroxysm is shortest as a whole; the quotidian has the shortest cold stage and a long hot stage, while its paroxysm is longest as a whole.
Sir Charles is in weak health just now, only clear of a quartan ague, and it is likely he will keep his cabin most of the voyage.
I had heard also that you had been plagued by a quartan ague.
The older tertian and quartan organisms show larger sky-blue bodies with more reticular chromatin, and contain brown granules of pigment, which, however, is less evident than in the living parasite.
In tertian and quartan malaria they cannot easily be distinguished from the asexual individuals until a variable time after the blood leaves the body, when the male gamete sends out {189} one or more flagella.
Being in extreme perspiration, and panting with heat, he entered a subterraneous vault which he found in his way, and when he had there appeased the violence of his thirst by an excessive draught of wine, he brought on a quartan fever.
On the third before the ides of December, Roger bishop of Salisbury, by the kindness of death, escaped the quartan ague which had long afflicted him.
He himself escaped the autumnal fever but he incurred the quartan later in the year.
One of the French princesses having been long afflicted with a quartan ague, "The king commanded Mr Talbor to take a turn at Paris, and as a mark of distinction he honoured him with the title of knight.
A Liverpool writer says: "In the autumn of 1782 the quartan ague was very prevalent on the opposite shore of the river in Cheshire: it was universal in the neighbourhood of Hoylake, where many died of it.
The singular nature of quartans is further brought out in the fact that papules, pustules and exanthems breaking out on the skin were quite common in the quartanfever which followed the malignant epidemic of the autumn of 1657.
He had known a quartan continue for several years under the use of bark.
The symptoms of a quartan are various; but it is not easy to pronounce that these all are the symptoms of an intermittent fever, or the prodromal signs thereof, unless intermittent fevers be epidemic at the time.
Stow calls it "quartan agues," which destroyed many old people and especially priests, so that a great number of parishes were unserved.
Captain Lope de Llanos kisses your Lordship's hands; he is very ill with quartan ague.
Captain Lope Llanos kisses your Excellency's hands; he is very ill with quartan ague.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quartan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
