Note 632 — BOOK I.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

The fever here described is evidently the semitertian. See Paulus Ægineta, Book II., 34. “The true semitertian,” says M. Bartels, as quoted by M. Littré, “is a real complication of an intermittent fever with another fever of a continual type. It does not show itself but rarely in our countries; but it is more frequent in the hotter countries of Europe, although the false semitertian has oftener than once been confounded with the true. In the true, the intermittent fever is tertian; the non-intermittent is quotidian.” See also Galen, Opera, tom. v., p. 362; ed. Basil.