[Ansteorra] Question about researching historic pathogens

[Stefan li Rous]

Yes. I sent you another message by email about my interest in such  
articles for the Florilegium, but let me reply here on this one as well.

Here is one similar article I have in the PERSONAL CARE section of the  
Florilegium. I'd love to have more. From a modern or period  
perspective. And I agree with Mike that part of the problem is  
figuring out exactly which disease various period reports were talking  
about.

Thorns-o-Rose-art (29K)  2/ 3/10  "Thorns on a Rose - The History and  
Historical
                                      Epidemiology of Syphilis in  
Renaissance
                                      Europe" by THLady Maimuna al- 
Bukhariyya.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/PERSONAL/Thorns-o-Rose-art.html

I have others, once I can figure out how to translate them from ".pub"  
format. But as there are different opinions and as authors approach  
the same subject from different angles, multiple articles on the same  
subject are acceptable.

Stefan

On Nov 27, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Ely wrote:
> I'm looking more into venereal diseases, the other plague. Some of  
> which also can cause the skin eruptions. Still interesting?
>
> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> Mike Andrews        /   Michael Fenwick    Barony of Namron,  
>> Ansteorra