[Sca-cooks] Modern asthmas vs period catarrhs

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach SableSwanHerald at aol.com:

>Adamantius,
>
>You've asked questions I've often wondered about.
>
>While it's doubtless true that some of our environmental toxins and food
>additives have caused adverse reactions in those who turn out to be sensitive
>or allergic, I sometimes feel that many reasoners about this proceed from the
>assumption that everyone in period who survived childhood was lusty and
>healthy.  Actually, as you point out, there are always mentions pof various
>weird fluxes, agues, etc. which could have been caused by a wide variety of
>agents.  For example, Henry IV (Hotspur) was the one who died, I believe of
>some weird, horrible disease that caused him to start to rot into pieces
>while still alive.  They didn't really have a name for it - it wasn't
>leprosy, because that was a known ailment.
>
>Berengaria

I wonder if it was a strep infection gone wild, the so-called
flesh-eating bacteria?

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