Tuesday 18 March 1661/62

All the morning at the office with Sir W. Pen. Dined at home, and Luellin and Blurton with me. After dinner to the office again, where Sir G. Carteret and we staid awhile, and then Sir W. Pen and I on board some of the ships now fitting for East Indys and Portugall, to see in what forwardness they are, and so back home again, and I write to my father by the post about Brampton Court, which is now coming on. But that which troubles me is that my Father has now got an ague that I fear may endanger his life. So to bed.

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N dirk on Fri 18 Mar 2005, 11:50pm. Flag this

ague

Sam’s entries have mentioned this mysterious “ague” several times over the last weeks, and it has been suggested that it was probably some kind of swamp fever.

“Ague: Any intermittent fever characterised by periods of chills, fevers and sweats. Most commonly identified as malaria. Malarial Fever. Malarial or intermittent fever characterised 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. 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
N JWB on Sat 19 Mar 2005, 03:12am. Flag this

From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no1/reiter.htm
N vicenzo on Sat 19 Mar 2005, 04:21am. Flag this

great find:I find it strange that Two leaders that affected History, did Die of the Mosquito, Alex of Macedonia and Crumwell of Hunts.
N Australian Susan on Sat 19 Mar 2005, 08:31am. Flag this

Fascinating site, JWB! Thank you. Mention is made there that the people in marshy areas of Essex thought that the smell arising from the marches caused the ague - the bad air - as was thought with the plague (we’ll come to that in 4 years’ time - if we are all still here).
N JWB on Sat 19 Mar 2005, 04:36pm. Flag this

Related item-
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040902090552.htm
N Noel C. BonTempo, MD on Sat 19 Mar 2005, 07:08pm. Flag this

Malaria is an Italian word which, if broken down into its component parts mal and aria, translates as bad air.
N A. De Araujo on Sat 19 Mar 2005, 09:22pm. Flag this

“ague”
Cromwell is said to have refused to take the “Jesuit Powder” read quinine that might have saved his life.
N vicenzo on Sat 19 Mar 2005, 10:18pm. Flag this

Nature gearing up to keep nature in balance again in 21st century.
http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/DHHS/CDCS/West+Nile+Virus/default.ht
Greed helps to eliminate the Mosquito : By using the idea of enclosure, the Fens were drained, not for the ague but to raise more cows and food stuffs for the Landed Lords. See the Bills for bog clearance [fens] befpre and after the Between the Rexees [Chas I- Chas II]
N A. Hamilton on Sun 20 Mar 2005, 09:08pm. Flag this

Bad air

JWB, many thanks for a fascinating find.