AGUE (from

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• LAT

Lat. acuta,

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• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

sharp; sc. febris,

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• FEVER (Lat. febris, connected with fervere, to burn)

fever)  , the common name given to a form or stage of malarial disease; the ague fit is the cold, shivering stage, and hence the word is also loosely used for any such paroxysm . Simple ague is of much the same type whether in temperate or tropical climates, and may take various forms (quotidian, tertian, quartan), passing into " remittent fever." The symptoms are discussed, together with causation, &c., in the article MALARIA . For " brow-ague " see NEURALGIA .