For the disease formerly known as tertian fever see Malaria.

And while the tertian fever may come back now and then, the syphilis does not.

The parasite has an approximately 48 hour life cycle and gives rise to a tertian fever.

"I have a tertian fever, which seized me after the fete at Vaux."

Tertian fever, for example, recedes quickly after the first attack but then returns two days later with devastating force."

"Tertian fever.

"Aunt Clara," said Serena, exasperated, "how on earth would I have contracted a tertian fever?

My father was not well; a tertian fever he had brought from Sicily often troubled him; when the bout was on he could not do business, or attend to the farm.

Simon the younger died that year, reportedly of a tertian fever, while Guy managed to appeal to the pope (with the aid of his father-in-law), resulting in his return to the church.

He had a serious love affair about this time, which was broken off on the very eve of marriage by his catching a tertian fever which defied all attempts at cure for some two years.

In an account published in 1663 by Sebastiano Bado, an Italian, the following claim was made: In 1638, the Countess of Chinchon became severely ill with tertian fever (malaria).

Here is a list of the disorders that began to inflict the Rev. Lorenz Drnhofer in his early 40's: "gout, sciatica, tertian fever, St. Anthony's fire (erysipelas, a streptococcal infection) and/or kidney stones."

There were some who said he had never recovered from the tertian fever which he had caught when campaigning in the French marshes; others said he had lived too well; and, of course, there was the inevitable murmur of poison.

The classic symptom of malaria is paroxysm-a cyclical occurrence of sudden coldness followed by rigor and then fever and sweating, occurring every two days (tertian fever) in P. vivax and P. ovale infections, and every three days (quartan fever) for P. malariae.