ague vs refrigeration

ague

noun
  • A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. 

  • The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever 

  • An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. 

verb
  • To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. 

refrigeration

noun
  • The cooling of the body for therapeutic purposes. 

  • The process of preserving something by cooling. 

  • The process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it. 

How often have the words ague and refrigeration occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )