Typically associated with the chills and fever of malaria, the Pocket Companion to Culpeper’s Herbal, or English physician (1820) describes such a variety of agues that it can be surmised it was also a term to describe general fevers with chills. The Study of Medicine: In Four Volumes (1822) describes a variety of agues with the additional observation of the Greeks for good, classical measure. It would appear it was sometime after 1830 when the ague began to almost exclusively be associated with malaria.
Here are the herbal remedies from the English physician…
The main treatment for malaria in the 1800s was quinine or arsenic (Lectures on the theory and practice of Medicine, 1839).
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