Identifier: journalofhygiene01nutt (find matches)
Title: The Journal of hygiene
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner, 1862-1937
Subjects: Hygiene
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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26 The Geogrcqjlucal Distribution of Anojjheles The Foryner Geographical Distribution of Ague in England. And danger like an ague subtly taints even then when we sit idly in the sun. Troilus and Cressida, Act iii. sc. 3. The history of malarial disease in England almost up to the begin-ning of the present century is involved in much obscurity. We read ofepidemic after epidemic sweeping over this country destroying in itscourse sometimes half the population of a town. Many of theseepidemics were known as the plague ague, or by some other namewhich suggests a malarious origin. But Creighton^ warns us againstsupposing that the word ague, as used in bygone times, had this signifi-cance. Originally he tells us it meant simply an acute illnes.s, beingthe adjective oifehris acuta used as a substantive. In Ireland it wasapplied until a comparatively recent period to the indigenous typhus ofthat country. Even the terms tertian, quartan, and the like, as used byold writers, are according to him

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