tertian

Statistics gathered from a great many sources and relating to many countries and climates indicate that quotidian intermittents are more common than tertian.

A certain Person, who purposely sunned himself for a considerable Time, in the clear Day of an intermitting tertian Fever, underwent the Assault of an Apoplexy, which carried him off the following Day.

A man about forty years old had in the spring a tertian fever, for which he took too small a quantity of bark, so that the returns of it were weakened without being removed.

A tailor, 30 years of age, had moved to the lower part of the city and contracted a tertian intermittent.

Two, the so-called benign fevers, are intermittent; namely, tertian and quartan fever, in which the fever recurs every second and third day respectively.