[Sca-cooks] plague recipes

[Huette von Ahrens]

I would not dream of plaguing Gunther to do any
such thing.  If I misread your post, I apologize.

Huette

--- Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
> 
> 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....
> 
> 
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