In the 1850s, cholera and dysentery regularly ripped through communities, its victims often dying from debilitating diarrhoea, and dropsy, consumption, ague and rheumatism were all too common.
After flooding, the land was considered unsuitable for dairy cattle for some time and the resulting bad air was said to cause attacks of the ague in local people.
In 1877, he fell ill with what was then only described as an ague (fever), played only 22 games, and did not play well when he was in the lineup.
Many residents suffered from the ague, a disease later determined to be malaria.
He injured his ankle and had to rest as it became an ulcer, while all his men had fever, dysentery or ague.
Greatrakes cured him in a few minutes of an acute ague.
He described his condition as very ill with vertigo, nausea, etc., and now am excessively debilitated, having occasional attacks of the ague.
Ague, of course, is one of the most prevalent diseases of the district; fever abounds.
