[Sca-cooks] plague recipes

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Ummm ... Phlip, I hate to correct you, you being
> a saint and all ... but mosquitos don't carry
> Plague, they carry dengue, yellow fever, malaria
> and several forms of encephalitis, and now the
> West Nile virus.  The Plague is carried by fleas
> on rats and other rodents.
>
> Huette

Umm... Huette, I will gladly accept the correction, jusr as soon as you show
me where I said Plague was transmitted by mosquitoes.... I also did not
specify which plagues were transmitted by which species of mosquitoes vs
which species of whatever other insect vectors there might be available, nor
that only certain species of certain insect types will transmit certain
diseases, despite having been exposed to them, nor which animal species act
as disease reservoirs in stages of quiescence, nor did I specify that Plague
is considered endemic to the US west coast today, generating anywhere from a
couple to a dozen cases per year- after all, I was not giving a detailed
description of disease transmission, I was giving a quick discussion of the
reasoning which led medieval physicians to use aromatics as preventatives
against Plague, among other plagues.

However, if you WISH me to specify this information, please get Gunthar to
give me permission to post it in all its tedious detail to the List, since
in my opinion it goes beyond out usual scope.

Saint Phlip,
CoDoLDS

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

> --- Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> >
> > Stefan-
> >
> > >From what I've found, most of the formulas for
> > the Plague were designed to
> > protect the user from its "pestilential
> > miasma", in other words, bad vapors
> > in the air. In period, it was noticed that
> > people who slept outdoors or with
> > open windows were more subject to various
> > plagues, and rather than
> > connecting the problem with mosquitoes, it was
> > believed the evening air was
> > dangerous. During the Black Plague, the Drs
> > went around in rather odd
> > looking outfits with face masks on, and had
> > rather odd concoctions in the
> > masks to prevent the pestilential airs from
> > assailing them- they looked like
> > nothing so much as the Spies in Mad Magazine's
> > Spy vs Spy comic feature ;-)
> > If you're interested in the research I have, I
> > can likely scan it in for
> > you, but I can't let you put it in the
> > Florilegium since it isn't my work-
> > it's from one of my upper level Biology
> > classes.
> >
> > Saint Phlip,
> > CoDoLDS
> >
> > "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a
> > hammer."
> >  Blacksmith's credo.
> >
> >  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a
> > duck, it is probably not a
> > cat.
> >
> > Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> > And never a rider who cain't be throwed....