Irish ague

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 584 words | Copyright

Irish ague, a disease reported as affecting both natives and foreigners in the 16th and 17th centuries. Gerard Boate, in 1652, described it as ‘commonly accompanied with a great pain in the head and in all the bones, great weakness, drought, loss of all manner of appetite and want of sleep and for the most part idleness or raving and restlessness or tossings but no very great or constant heat’ and as ‘hard to be cured’. One suggestion is that it was typhus, but malaria is also a possibility, since the country had more bogs than today.

Hiram Morgan

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