tertian
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Quinine also destroys the sexual forms of all but P. falciparum, which means that even after he is "cured" by quinine a patient with malignant tertian malaria can give the protozoa to any suitable mosquito.
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A total of 213 cases was reported; of those, only six were of the "benign tertian" or vivax type.
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Influenza, tertian fever, leprosy were all endemic, along with tapeworm and a mysterious intestinal infestation that made its victim long to eat earth.
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Like quinine, it does not kill sexual forms of malignant tertian malaria.
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The antagonism of the Catholic and Protestant mind is the result of this contrast, which has, moreover, been pictured in the tertian fevers of French revolution and in the mystical skepticism of modern Germany.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
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