Ague

an intermittent fever, in whatever stage of its progre or whatever its type. A person about to be seized by it generally feels somewhat indisposed for about a fortnight previously. ‘Then he is seized with a shivering fit, which ushers in the cold stage of the disease. This pa es at length into a hot stage, and it again into one characteristic of great perspiration, which carries off the disorder fora time. ‘The remedy is quinine or some other anti-periodic.