Tertian

"Tertian" in a Sentence (2 examples)

And although we feele it not, it is not to bee doubted, if a continuall ague may in the end suppresse our mind, a tertian will also (according to her measure and proportion) breed some alteration in it.

He died of the slow fever call'd the tertian, / And left his widow to her own aversion.

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