In this sense, the word has been used by medicine of more recent times; in the 16th through the 18th centuries, it often refers to the day on which a fever was thought to break ( see quartan fever, quintan fever ).
12.
He studied the life cycle of " Plasmodium " and related the timing of tertian and quartan fevers seen in malaria with the life cycle of the organisms now named " Plasmodium vivax " and " Plasmodium malariae ", respectively.
13.
The sample was first thought to be " Plasmodium knowlesi " due to the morphological similarities of the two species, but was later identified as separate due to having a tertiary periodicity compared to " P . knowlesi " s quartan periodicity.
14.
He altered the composition of the cobla, which he likewise considered too limited, transforming the archaic " cobla de tres quartans " ( bagpipes, shawm, flabiol and tambori ) into a formation that was initially composed of five or seven musicians but which progressively incorporated brass instruments.
15.
That September, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Audley, reported Edward's rapid growth and vigour; At the age of four, he fell ill with a life-threatening " quartan fever ", but, despite occasional illnesses and poor eyesight, he enjoyed generally good health until the last six months of his life.
16.
The Professors ( one or more as there was occasion ) gave a Subject suitable to the Capacity of each Class, determining the number of Rhimes, and clearing what was to be chiefly observed therein as to Syllables, Quartans, Concord, Correspondence, Termination and Union, each of which were restrain'd by peculiar Rules.
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Rabanus also, a famous Doctor, composed an excellent book of the vertues of numbers : But now how great vertues numbers have in nature, is manifest in the hearb which is called Vervin is said to cure Feavers, being drunk in wine, if in tertians it be cut from the third joynt, in quartans from the fourth.
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There is a very similar imperial ruling described in the " Life of Caracalla " ( 5.7 ), which makes no sense in Caracalla's time, and is worded in almost exactly the same way : " " qui remedia quartanis tertianisque collo adnexas gestarent " " ( " wearing them around their necks as preventives of quartan or tertian fever " ).
19.
For a long time he was held in vague esteem for the success of his cooling ( or rather expectant ) treatment of smallpox, for his laudanum ( the first form of a tincture of opium ), and for his advocacy of the use of " Peruvian bark " in quartan agues, in modern terms, the use of quinine-containing cinchona bark for treatment of malaria caused by " Plasmodium malariae ".
20.
The classic symptom of malaria is paroxysm a cyclical occurrence of sudden coldness followed by shivering and then fever and sweating, occurring every two days ( tertian fever ) in " P . vivax " and " P . ovale " infections, and every three days ( quartan fever ) for " P . malariae " . " P . falciparum " infection can cause recurrent fever every 36 48 hours or a less pronounced and almost continuous fever.
