ague caken.

1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 447 Ague cake, rost Onions with butter, and streine it & anoint the side.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 53 This worthy Motto, No Bishop, no King, is..a meere ague-cake coagulated of a certaine Fever they have, presaging their time to be but short.

1684 T. Guidott Gideon's Fleece 7 As for the Mothers, and the Daughters sake, To raise in his own Spleen an Ague-cake?

1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. Introd. p. cxxiv In these Fevers if the Person died not..but recovered, they..usually had swellings in their left Sides, called Ague Cakes, which were very painful, and in time kill'd them.

1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida 242 The use of bark is generally blamed as productive of dropsy; jaundice, the ague cake, and other inveterate chronical disorders.

1801 E. Darwin Zoonomia II. 47 The liver, spleen, or pancreas; one or more of which are frequently so enlarged in the autumnal intermittents as to be perceptible to the touch externally, and are called by the vulgar ague-cakes.

1873 W. W. Hall Health at Home iii. 115 In very protracted cases of fever and ague the liver swells and hardens, and there is an ague cake on that side also.

1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove xxxvii. 270 From ancient boggy sod it loosed its malarial and enteric fevers so that Asa was doubled up with an ‘ague cake’ in his side.

2005 G. B. Risse New Med. Challenges Sc. Enlightenment v. 173 Easily detected by healers and lay persons in Britain, the abdominal tumour was popularly referred to as ‘ague-cake’.