[Ads-l] Antedating of "Lyme Disease"

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

Thanks for this, Fred.

Looks like the term -- "the Lyme disease" -- appeared slightly earlier
(18 July 1976) in The New York Times itself
(https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/18/archives/a-new-type-of-arthritis-found-in-lyme-new-form-of-arthritis-is.html).

Although the article began on p.1, the "the Lyme disease" only appears
later in the piece, cropping up on p. 39 of that Sunday edition.
(Clinicians at Yale who were studying the syndrome seemed to prefer
"Lyme arthritis" at the time.)

-- Bonnie

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 6:57 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> Lyme disease (OED 1979)
>
> 1976 Burlington Free Press 24 July 8A/6 (Newspapers.com
>
> An investigation and study, which may prove to be of key importance not only in deciphering the Lyme disease, but of the other forms of arthritis as well.
>
>
> Fred Shapiro

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