dumb ague

But for him, I might never have heard of ‘the dumb-ague,’ respecting which malady I am now learned.

I got back all right with the exception of the dumb ague, which took me just as I got ready to leave Fort Gibson.

And as he cured me of the dumb ague by giving me a pitcher of ice-water, I thought I would bring him along.

Besides, he's ben on the flat of his back off and on all summer, with dumb ague.

To this cause he attributed the 'dumb ague,' that laid him up when the first snow-storm commenced.