[Ads-l] Antedating of "Tennis Elbow"

[Shapiro, Fred]

That should read "rights itself," not "rightly itself".

Fred Shapiro


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From: Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
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Subject: Antedating of "Tennis Elbow"

tennis elbow (OED 1883)

1881 Field 21 May 39 (British Newspaper Archive)

As tennis elbow usually occurs in young and healthy subjects, who take plenty of exercise, it generally rightly itself in a short time.

Fred Shapiro

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