In recent years, great strides have been made in the field of medicine to lessen the terrors of illness. Curiously, however, one aspect of the struggle against disease has been overlooked almost entirely. We refer, of course, to the verbal aspect
The naming of diseases is a critical aspect of public health communication. In light of the recent r...
For the past few years considerable attention has been directed towards the outbreaks of smallpox ...
The word dweorg with the meaning ‘dwarf’ was certainly available in Anglo-Saxon England, as atteste...
Up to the 18th century smallpox ranked as the first cause of mortality in Europe and was considered ...
From time to time, those of us who contribute to the pages of Word Ways turn to the subject of illne...
The term which is at the heart of the investigation is fever(s) both as a single-word lexeme and as ...
• It is not believed that flu is Spanish in origin, or distinct enough to deserve the name• It is be...
Pestilential diseases formed a category of epidemic and often fatal diseases, whose outbreak, causes...
Almost as far back as we have records of events the story of the disease called Epilepsy reaches. L...
Fear in time of plague is one of the greatest chapters in the cultural history of this emotion in Ol...
International audienceVertigo has been described by medical doctors since Antiquity, but the conditi...
An attempt is made in this thesis, to discuss the disease of variola or smallpox as a whole, layin...
Smallpox is a disease that followed humanity for thousands of years up until 30 years ago. It was po...
By R.A. Kashanipour My previous post introduced how colonial Maya healers writing in Ritual of the B...
There was some kind of method used in an empiric way that helped to suffer the small pot disease in ...
The naming of diseases is a critical aspect of public health communication. In light of the recent r...
For the past few years considerable attention has been directed towards the outbreaks of smallpox ...
The word dweorg with the meaning ‘dwarf’ was certainly available in Anglo-Saxon England, as atteste...
Up to the 18th century smallpox ranked as the first cause of mortality in Europe and was considered ...
From time to time, those of us who contribute to the pages of Word Ways turn to the subject of illne...
The term which is at the heart of the investigation is fever(s) both as a single-word lexeme and as ...
• It is not believed that flu is Spanish in origin, or distinct enough to deserve the name• It is be...
Pestilential diseases formed a category of epidemic and often fatal diseases, whose outbreak, causes...
Almost as far back as we have records of events the story of the disease called Epilepsy reaches. L...
Fear in time of plague is one of the greatest chapters in the cultural history of this emotion in Ol...
International audienceVertigo has been described by medical doctors since Antiquity, but the conditi...
An attempt is made in this thesis, to discuss the disease of variola or smallpox as a whole, layin...
Smallpox is a disease that followed humanity for thousands of years up until 30 years ago. It was po...
By R.A. Kashanipour My previous post introduced how colonial Maya healers writing in Ritual of the B...
There was some kind of method used in an empiric way that helped to suffer the small pot disease in ...
The naming of diseases is a critical aspect of public health communication. In light of the recent r...
For the past few years considerable attention has been directed towards the outbreaks of smallpox ...
The word dweorg with the meaning ‘dwarf’ was certainly available in Anglo-Saxon England, as atteste...