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  Ague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ague killed about 1000 men in the digging of the Montezuma Marsh section of the Erie Canal in 1819.
Along the southeastern coast of the United States during its early history ague was a major killer, and many of the wealthier residents of Charleston, Savannah and other coastal cities with large swampy areas would travel to Boston or to the southern Appalachian Mountains to escape.
Eliot wrote of 'The ague of the skeleton' in Whispers of Immortality.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ague   (174 words)

  
 AGUE - LoveToKnow Article on AGUE
febris, fever), the common name given to a form or stage of malarial disease; the ague fit is the cold, shivering stage, and hence the word is also loosely used for any such paroxysm.
Simple ague is of much the same type whether in temperate or tropical climates, and may take various forms (quotidian, tertian, quartan), passing into " remittent fever." The symptoms are discussed, together with causation, andc., in the article MALARIA.
AGUESSEAU, HENRI FRANCOIS D' (1668-1751), chancellor of France, illustrious for his virtues, learning and talents, was born at Limoges, of a family of the magistrature.
97.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AG/AGUE.htm   (166 words)

  
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Ague called Beal, who told her that he was surprised at having been discharged, and that he had done "absolutely" nothing to Duke to warrant a complaint.
Ague said that a man was coming from Denver to take her affidavit, that she was trying to find out if Beal was fired "for the right reasons" or because of his union activity, and that she had very little to go on.
Ague verified that she had asked Duke certain questions, and explained that she had contacted Duke because she was concerned that Beal was discharged not for sexual harassment, but for union activity.
www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1990/sg900223.txt   (2605 words)

  
 Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ague, J. J., and Rye, D. M., 1999, Simple models of CO release from metacarbonates with implications for interpretation of directions and magnitudes of fluid flow in the deep crust: Journal of Petrology, v.
Ague, J. and Brimhall, G. H., 1988, Magmatic arc asymmetry and distribution of Anomalous plutonic belts in the batholiths of California: Effects of assimilation, cratonal thickness and depth of crystallization: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v 100, 912-927.
Ague, J. and Brimhall, G. H., 1988, Regional variations in bulk chemistry, mineralogy and the compositions of mafic and accessory minerals in the batholiths of California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v 100, 891-911.
love.geology.yale.edu /~ja5/Publications.html   (1230 words)

  
 ague - definition by dict.die.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
ague n 1: a fit of shivering 2: successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria [syn: chills and fever] 3: a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation [syn: acute accent, acute]
Ague drop, a solution of the arsenite of potassa used for ague.
Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague.
dict.die.net /ague   (148 words)

  
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Ague said she was calling because an attorney was coming from Denver that day to take a swom statement from her and she needed to speak to Duke before she gave the affidavit.
Ague said, "I mean it wasn't as if he asked you to go to bed with him or anything." Marnie said what Beal had done was very wrong, and she did not have time to talk to Ague because she had to leave for school.
Ague said she was getting very uncomfortable about this and that, at their meeting later in the day, she was going to have an attorney present and felt the Y might want one also.
www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/291/291-998.txt   (14040 words)

  
 JMISC #47: Pages from a Doctor's Manual   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
AGUE, or intermittent fever, is a fever consisting of paroxysms, or periods of fever, between each of which there is a distinct and perfect intermission from febrile symptoms.
Ague does arise, however, from other causes than marsh effluvia; and it may be produced by sympathy, or irritation in the stomach and intestines.
When an ague is accompanied with a sallowness of the complexion, and pain, tenderness, ­ or swelling about the region of the stomach or liver, indicating the existence of some internal obstruction or disease, the alternative pill, No.
www.earlyrepublic.net /jm980203.htm   (4094 words)

  
 Ague -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ague is an archaic term for (Intense nervous anticipation) fever.
The translation in (The third book of the Old Testament; contains Levitical law and ritual precedents) Leviticus 26:16 (R.V., "fever") of the (The ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel) Hebrew word kaddah'ath, meaning "kindling", i.e., an inflammatory or burning fever.
It was understood that the fever came from the swamps, but not that (Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals) mosquitos were the carriers.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ag/ague.htm   (146 words)

  
 From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age
agues (especially quartans) appear early as about midsummer, then autumn proves very sickly." We cannot assume that insects referred to mosquitoes, but the statement that an early appearance of quartans was a premonition of a high incidence of illness (presumably agues?) has the distinct ring of modern epidemiology.
For example, Harvey's ague began in the fall of 1597, yet the years 1594 to 1597 had been so cold and wet that wheat harvests were a disaster (1).
The strongest evidence that ague was indeed malaria is the identity of its cure.
www.cdc.gov /ncidod/eid/vol6no1/reiter.htm   (5288 words)

  
 Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ague and Brimhall (1988a, 1988b) estimated the fugacities of magmatic volatiles in the Mesozoic batholiths of California based on the compositions of hydrous minerals.
Ague and Brandon (1992, 1996) developed a new, statistically rigorous method based on igneous barometry for correcting paleomagnetic data from batholiths for post-magnetization tilt, and applied it to the famous “Baja British Columbia” hypothesis.
Ague (1997) refined the hornblende barometer and provided a set of balanced chemical reactions that could be solved simultaneously for temperature and pressure using available thermodynamic data.
earth.geology.yale.edu /~ja5/Research.html   (2060 words)

  
 MALARIA - LoveToKnow Article on MALARIA
Another paroxysm begins at or near the same hour next day (quotidian ague), which results from a double tertian infection, or the interval may be fortyeight hours (tertian ague), or seventy-two hours (quartan ague).
The point common to the various forms of ague is that the paroxysm ceases about midnight or early thorning.
The malarial cachexia that follows definite attacks of ague consists in a state of ill-defined suffering, associated with a sallow skin, enlarged spleen and liver, and sometimes with dropsy.
41.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MALARIA.htm   (6012 words)

  
 Linné on line - Linnaeus' thesis on the ague (malaria)
The ague was a common disease in Sweden during the 18th century.
In 1735 Linnaeus defended his theses on the ague and presented a new theory of the reason for the disease.
The ague seemed to be most common in areas with clay soils.
www.linnaeus.uu.se /online/animal/4_1.html   (326 words)

  
 Thomas' Eclectic Practice of Medicine, 1907: Infectious diseases: Malarial fever: Chronic Malarial Fever.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is true that persons suffering from ague do not like to wait the slowr actions of remedies: they want it broken at once; yet if they are told that the slower cure is the more rational one, they will take it in preference.
Some of the patent 'ague cures' contain arsenic; as, for instance—(I will not name them, as the proprietors are very sensitive on the subject.) I have known a preparation of euonymus, quinine, and Fowler's solution of arsenic used successfully, but I can not recommend it.
It is safe in all cases to take it for granted that this is the fact, and in intractable ague associated with local or functional diseases, to adopt a treatment for their, cure.
www.ibiblio.org /herbmed/eclectic/thomas/malaria_chro.html   (3189 words)

  
 Olympus Microscopy Resource Center: Mortimer Abramowitz Gallery of Photomicrography - Ague Tree (Sassafras albidum) ...
The name of the Sassafras albidum tree is frequently shortened to sassafras, although it is sometimes alternatively known as the ague tree or cinnamon wood.
In fact, ague tree oil was once the key ingredient of root beer.
Typically a small tree, in the northern parts of its range the ague tree is particularly shrub-like and does not generally grow taller than 40 feet in height.
olympusmicro.com /galleries/abramowitz/pages/sassafrasalbidumsmall.html   (201 words)

  
 AGUE
Ague is really not a festival or a ceremony, as such’ it is a period of time which used to last for 3 months.
During Ague, strangers were forbidden to enter the city; nobody except the palace servants was allowed to see the Oba; no man was allowed to sleep with his wife or wives; very little food was consumed.
It was during AGUE that the British insisted on visiting OVONRHAMWEN in Benin City in 1897.
www.edo-nation.net /ague1.htm   (183 words)

  
 Ague definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
Ague: A fever (such as from malaria) that is marked by paroxysms of chills, fever, and sweating recurring regular intervals.
Pronounced 'A-(")gyü with the accent solidly on the "A", the word "ague" is an example of how medical terminology changes with time.
Not only are new terms introduced (with great speed these days) but old terms such as "ague" may decline in usage (become archaic) and eventually may be dropped entirely (be obsolete).
www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=10965   (253 words)

  
 Taraxacum. (Taraxacum Officinale.) - THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.
Great prostration, loss of appetite ; profuse sweats at night, was compelled to change his shirt three times every night ; great thirst, day and night ; restless sleep.
Ague : where Cinchona has only slightly delayed paroxysms, and where disease degenerated into a slow fever, especially in dry and bilious subjects.
Typhoid fever ; during rest intolerable tearing pains, in lower extremities ; constant muttering delirium ; violent tearing pain in occiput ; great chilliness after eating or drinking ; mapped tongue.
www.homeoint.org /hering/t/tarax.htm   (1309 words)

  
 Chinook and Epidemic Disease
A violent disease called "fever and ague," "intermittent fever" or the "cold sick" devastated Chinookan peoples up and down the Columbia.
Few whites died from the "fever and ague" because they had access to quinine, and the illness returned annually until 1834.
The disease, probably imported during early white occupancy, disappeared by 1900 when local swamps and lakes were drained.
www.ccrh.org /comm/slough/chinook5.htm   (292 words)

  
 Chapter Agriculturist <i>to</i> Ain't of A by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
the sassafras, — sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague.
To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong.
Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky.
www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1192/21577/2.html   (203 words)

  
 epidemic descriptions
The symptoms are a general coldness, soreness, and stiffness of the limbs and body, with violent tertian ague [i.e., shaking fits every other day].
I suffered much while residing on my farm from the ague, a disease said to be unknown to the Indians or traders, till within some four or five years.
It was during the few weeks passed at Wallamette that I caught the ague (trembling fever).
www.ccrh.org /comm/slough/primary/descript.htm   (1409 words)

  
 ague - OneLook Dictionary Search
AGUE : Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE [home, info]
Phrases that include ague: ague root, ague grass, ague weed, ague cake, ague fit, more...
Words similar to ague: acute, aguish, acute accent, chill, chills, chills and fever, fever, shivers, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=ague&ls=a   (259 words)

  
 Ague
We recommend this article: Ague - 1, and also this: Ague - 2.
Ague is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Please note that all words in grey are hyperlinked to an archive with articles related to that word, including dream interpretations.
www.experiencefestival.com /ague   (356 words)

  
 AGUE FAQ
AGUE is an abbreviation for Alt.Games.Unreal.Ed, the newsgroup devoted to the editing (mainly of maps, but we'll get to that later) using the Unreal engine (and its many derivatives, but again, we'll get to that later).
Most people who use AGUE are using either the original Unreal game or the successful follow-up Unreal Tournament.
While those at AGUE will attempt to help anyone with all of these it focuses mainly on map making, as will this FAQ.
www.blacksway.net /unreal/faq/faq.php   (1605 words)

  
 Ague Tree - LoveToKnow Garden
Ague Tree (Sassafras) - S. officinale is a distinct and remarkable tree, sometimes growing over 100 feet high, with a trunk 6 feet or more in diameter, and a rough aromatic bark in sandy soils in New England, Canada, and westwards and southwards.
The leaves are three-lobed, and vary much in shape.
In England this plant is best in warm soils similar to those in which it grows in its own, as our cool summers are less likely to ripen the wood.
garden.lovetoknow.com /wiki/Ague_Tree   (100 words)

  
 Genealogy Quest: Genealogical Research Assistance - Diseases
Ague - Malarial Fever; Malarial or intermittent fever characterized by paroxysms (stages of chills, fever, and sweating at regularly recurring times) and followed by an interval or intermission whose length determines the epithets: quotidian, tertian, quartan, and quintan ague (defined in the text).
Popularly, the disease was known as "fever and ague," "chill fever," "the shakes," and by names expressive of the locality in which it was prevalent--such as, "swamp fever" (in Louisiana), "Panama fever," and "Chagres fever."
Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills.
www.genealogy-quest.com /glossaries/diseases1.html   (1554 words)

  
 Old or Obsolete Names for Diseases and Disorders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
AGUE: Recurring fever & chills of malarial infection
I have a relative who spent most of her adult life in a mental hospital, and the only diagnosis for her that is shown in the existing records is "Mania."
AGUE: Used to define the recurring fever & chills of malarial infection
aspin.asu.edu /geneinfo/oldnames.htm   (12026 words)

  
 Natrum Muriaticum. - THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.
50, in early life suffered severely from ague, and still more from enormous doses of Quinine.
Quinine which had been administered year after year, every Spring and Autumn, has symptoms of chill and fever, after exposure to malarial influences ; ague.
65, six years ago had ague sixteen months in spite of Quinine, now suffering five months ; ague.
www.homeoint.org /hering/n/nat-m-10.htm   (923 words)

  
 Research Images 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Time-integrated fluid fluxes for the middle to lower crust based on representative data published in the literature (modified from Ague, 2003, Treatise on Geochemistry).
Data from (a) Breeding and Ague (2002), (b) Ferry (1992), (c) Ague (1994), (d) Oliver et al.
(1998), (e) Chamberlain and Rumble (1989), (f) Ague (1994), (g) Ague (1997), (h) Dipple and Ferry (1992), (i) Ferry (1992) and Leger and Ferry (1993), (j) Skelton et al.
love.geology.yale.edu /~ja5/Research_Images_5.html   (143 words)

  
 Crown College vs Principia College (Sept 6, 2003)
C 1-10 P22 Ague, K field goal attempt from 40 MISSED - wide left, spot at PC23, clock 00:00.
Ague, K kickoff 38 yards to the PC27, Wightman,I return 0 yards to the PC27, out-of-bounds.
C 4-G P05 Ague, K field goal attempt from 22 GOOD, clock 08:01.
www.umacathletics.com /stats/football/2003-2004/FB1.HTM   (3653 words)

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