History
By the time of Hippocrates several patterns of fever had been recognised: these included the tertian (every 48 hours) and quartan (every 72 hours) fevers caused by malaria. Over the succeeding centuries a general consensus arose regarding what constitutes a fever, the distinction between fever as a symptom and fever as a disease, an elaborate classification scheme for multiple types of fever, hypotheses as to the causes of fever and various methods for diagnosing and treating fevers. In the 10th century the Persian physician Akhawaynī created the concept of a fever curve - fever against time as a diagnostic aid.
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