Ague

(ar-gu). Malarial or intermittent fever, characterized by paroxysms, or stages, of chill, fever, and sweating at regularly recurring times, and followed by an interval or intermi ion whose length determines the epithets, quotidian, tertian, etc. In some cases there is a double paroxysm, and hence called double quotidian, double tertian, etc. The duration of each paroxysm varies from two to twelve hours. The most frequent and important complication of intermittent fever is pneumonia, the consolidation occurring very suddenly. In the blood of many malarial patients a minute hematozoan, the hem atom on as malaria, has been found. They are seen in the red corpuscles, are hyaline, and include pigment granules. They gradually increase in size, fill the cell, a proce of segmentation occurs, the cell wall breaks down, and the segments, each containing a pigment granule, are set free. These are oval and po e one to three flagella. These bodies disappear under the use of quinin. A. Aden. See Dengue . A., Bra -founders', a disease common among bra -founders, characterized by symptoms somewhat resembling an imperfect attack of intermittent fever, the recurrence of the paroxyms, however, being irregular. The direct cause is generally thought to be the inhalation of the fumes of deflagrating zinc or "spelter." A., Brow, intermittent neuralgia of the brow. A. Cake, chronic enlargement of the spleen in diseases of malarial origin. A., Catenating, ague a ociated with other diseases. A. Drop. See 's Solution. A., Dumb, latent ague; masked ague; ague with no well-marked chill, and with at most only partial or slight periodicity. A., Latent, see A-, Dumb. A., Leaping, a term for the dancing mania. A., Masked. See A. Dumb. A. Tree, common Sa afras. A. Weed. I. See Grindelia . 2. The Eupatorium per folia tum, or thorough-wort.