malaria

[Liland Brajant ROS']

>
>>From: Linda Fink <linda at fink.com>
>>Subject:      malaria
>>
>>http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol2no1/zuckerei.htm
>>
>>Thanks, Nadja, for this website! I found it interesting but I'm not
>ready to
>>swallow that the disease they are calling "malaria" in the 1800s was
>>malaria. Lots of diseases cause "fever and ague".
>
>Perhaps what we have here is either a clash between common usage and
>technical usage:
>
>  I'm not ready to swallow that the animal they shot was a buffalo.
>  A bison, perhaps, but surely not a buffalo.
>
>Or a change in English usage over the last couple hundred years. That
>the term "malaria" has changed in meaning over time is evident from its
>etymology (Italian for "bad air", just as cholera originally meant
>"bile", and influenza meant "influence [of an astrological kind]).
>
>English whales are not fish these days, but some of the Hebrew whales
>Yahweh originally stocked the oceans with *were* whales, and the
>insistence on the categories of modern zoology was not yet entirely
>fixed in Melville's day. Same sort of thing goes for Biblical "leprosy".
>
>So perhaps what they had in Oregon was malaria, but not what we now call
>malaria.
>
>lilend
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