Intermittens Larvata
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
Intermittens larvata is a term formerly applied to malaria attacks that occur without fever and manifest instead as various neuralgias, headaches, or brief psychiatric disturbances. These psychiatric equivalents include short-term depressions, twilight states, and hallucinoses, which are comparatively rare phenomena.
Encyclopedia entry (1928–1936)
INTERMITTENS LARVATA, a name sometimes given to malaria attacks that proceed without fever and manifest in various kinds of neuralgias, headaches, or short-lived outbreaks of mental disorder, which thus represent, in these cases, as it were, an equivalent of the absent fever. It is a matter chiefly of short-term depressions, twilight states, accompanied at times by significant motor excitation, and occasionally of hallucinoses. Intermittens larvata is a comparatively rare phenomenon.
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“Intermittens Larvata.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/intermittens-larvata/