tertian

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A total of 213 cases was reported; of those, only six were of the "benign tertian" or vivax type.

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Like quinine, it does not kill sexual forms of malignant tertian malaria.

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Influenza, tertian fever, leprosy were all endemic, along with tapeworm and a mysterious intestinal infestation that made its victim long to eat earth.

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Quinine also destroys the sexual forms of all but P. falciparum, which means that even after he is "cured" by quinine a patient with malignant tertian malaria can give the protozoa to any suitable mosquito.

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If this fever did not leave him, he must try blood-letting on himself, as though in a tertian.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel