[Ansteorra] Question about researching historic pathogens

[Greg Coffman]

You might look into a book called The Syphiliad, by a guy named Fracastoro. It's from the 1500s, and it is an epic poem about syphilis on the theory that it came from the new world. 
 I will not pretend to have known about this on my own. I heard about it from my wife the biologist/laurel.

Iago
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On Nov 27, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Ely  <madlaber at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I'm looking more into venereal diseases, the other plague. Some of which also can cause the skin eruptions. Still interesting?
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> 
> Mike Andrews <mikea at mikea.ath.cx> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:21:45AM -0600, Elyssa Hoffman wrote:
>>> I'm working on a couple of interesting cases this weekend that I might
>>> seek permission to write educational papers on. ( CE or CEU's for
>>> those in the medical field.) I posted awhile back about Yersinia
>>> pestis and there was enough interest for several posts to occur. The
>>> question I have today is: Is there enough interest and information in
>>> Medievil medicine to do a reseach project on other pathogens that
>>> "plagued" the time period. Or has this already been done to death? I
>>> figured if I can write I paper on the clock and get paid for it I
>>> could continue it for SCA fun.
>>> Elyssa de Orozco
>>> aka Mad Labr
>> 
>> I think it is a magnificent idea! Even if Y. pestis and its changes in
>> virulence (and, of course, its role in various plagues) have been done to
>> death -- which I think is not the case -- I haven't seen any papers on the
>> great plagues in the SCA context.
>> 
>> Have you ever thought about "leprosy", and what various disease(s) it
>> might have been? I somehow suspect that it wasn't just Hansen's Disease
>> (from Mycobacterium leprae/lepromatosis). The Talmud, e.g., appears to
>> argue that tzaraath, translated to Greek as "leprae", and thence to the
>> English "leprosy", referred generally to any disease that produces sores
>> and eruptions on the skin.
>> 
>> I'd like to forward your post, with comments, to the Ansteorra-Laurels and
>> SCA-Laurels lists.
>> 
>> -- 
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