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AGUE (from Lat. acuta, sharp; sc. feb...

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 427 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGUE (from See also:Lat. acuta, See also:sharp; sc. febris, See also:fever)  , the See also:common name given to a See also:form or See also:stage of malarial disease; the See also:ague See also:fit is the See also:cold, shivering stage, and hence the word is also loosely used for any such See also:paroxysm . See also: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 See also:fever." The symptoms are discussed, together with See also:causation, &c., in the See also:article See also:MALARIA . For " brow-ague " see See also:NEURALGIA .

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