Intermittent

Definitions

An intermittent fever or disease.

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Equivalents

Examples

“Feuers, and especially those that are called intermittents, discontinuing agues, euen naturally at the beginning and their first inuasion, cause vomits: and at the declining, sweats.”

“The Bark, which had been ineffectual in the Intermittents of the former Year, was successful in this.”

“In disease, the agency of this system of vessels is an object of attentive study⟳ with the pathologist. To its influence⟳ in inflammation, we have⟳ already alluded; but it is no less exemplified in the more general diseases of the frame, as in the cold, hot, and sweating stages of an intermittent.”

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