tertian
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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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A total of 213 cases was reported; of those, only six were of the "benign tertian" or vivax type.
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Last week he died of tertian malaria, nephritis and influenza, was buried on a hilltop in Addis Ababa.
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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.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
