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Mobius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:11 AM Original message |
Poll question: Favorite medieval disease? |
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CanuckAmok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
1. Make mine "The Falling Sickness", please! |
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RevolutionaryActs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
2. You know, I just got to go with the plague.. I mean its a staple. |
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jdots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:16 AM Original message |
Death by Poompaw |
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Spiffarino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:16 AM Response to Original message |
3. Red Death = Cholera |
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WMliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:16 AM Response to Original message |
4. scurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry |
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Mobius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:32 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. ooooh scurvy! |
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realisticphish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:39 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. um... |
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WMliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 12:48 PM Response to Reply #13 |
43. haha, i did. and it's too late for me to edit now. |
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rawtribe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
5. I'm not quite dead yet! |
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hickman1937 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:05 AM Response to Reply #5 |
22. BANG. Bring out your dead! |
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rawtribe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 03:38 AM Response to Reply #22 |
35. Welcome to DU |
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signmike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:20 AM Response to Original message |
6. Plague...Black or Bubonic? |
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Mobius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:31 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. they are the same |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:27 AM Response to Original message |
7. What was that one where everyone danced until they died? |
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CanuckAmok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:34 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. that wasn't medieval, that was 1986. |
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SmileyBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 03:42 AM Response to Reply #11 |
37. St. Elmo's Fire?? |
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Thurston Howell IV (436 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:01 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. St Vitus' Dance |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:03 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. We posted at the same time |
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Thurston Howell IV (436 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:19 AM Response to Reply #21 |
28. I'm a walking advertisement for Google |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:01 AM Response to Reply #7 |
19. I bet your talking about St. Vitus’ Dance |
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Mobius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
8. YAY Plague is winning! |
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azoth (408 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:36 AM Response to Original message |
12. What about syphyllis? Gonorrhea? |
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demgrrrll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:45 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. I think they called syphilis the pox . There was some medieval |
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azoth (408 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:02 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. So then was saying "a pox on your house" like saying |
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politicat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:26 AM Response to Reply #20 |
32. cute, but no. Pox is just a generic term for a disease that makes sores. |
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Mobius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-04 06:59 PM Response to Reply #32 |
50. Now we have Republican Pox |
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politicat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:24 AM Response to Reply #12 |
31. Syphyllis rears its head in the mid 1490's by some accounts, |
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WMliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 12:52 PM Response to Reply #12 |
44. i think those didn't come to europe until |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:39 AM Response to Original message |
14. There MUST have been crab lice back then |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:54 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Sure was, and bedbugs and fleas.. ICK. |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:18 AM Response to Reply #17 |
27. Could you imagine having all four at once? AAAAAACCKKKKK!!!! |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:36 AM Response to Reply #27 |
34. Ewww, I bet it happened back then too. |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 04:37 AM Response to Reply #34 |
39. I'm going to have nightmares about the creepy-crawlies! |
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Mobius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-04 07:03 PM Response to Reply #27 |
53. Im sure it happened |
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American Tragedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 04:30 AM Response to Reply #14 |
38. I have a question regarding crab lice |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 04:38 AM Response to Reply #38 |
41. They attach to the hair and lay eggs there, but they suck on your flesh. |
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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 05:08 AM Response to Reply #38 |
42. I think repeated shaving IS a pretty decent measure for both prevention |
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burn the bush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:42 AM Response to Original message |
15. were women afflicted with HYSTERIA yet? n/t |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:06 AM Response to Reply #15 |
24. Not until a few centuries later |
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American Tragedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 04:38 AM Response to Reply #15 |
40. The ancient Greeks were the ones who devised hysteria |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:05 AM Response to Original message |
23. The terrible scourge of Changelings! |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:07 AM Response to Original message |
25. Black plague was nice |
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hickman1937 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:10 AM Response to Original message |
26. Leprosy |
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Thurston Howell IV (436 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:20 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Good one! n/t |
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politicat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:21 AM Response to Original message |
30. Sweating sickness, please. |
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Anarcho-Socialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 02:27 AM Response to Original message |
33. imbalance of the four humurs n/t |
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SmileyBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 03:40 AM Response to Original message |
36. Lice and flux and vermin. |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
45. Biblical literalism |
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name not needed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
46. Leprosy |
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SarahB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
47. Scurvy! |
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Endangered Specie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
48. The Church |
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hippiechick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-04 01:12 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. ooh, I gotta go with this one !! |
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datasuspect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-04 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
51. phlegmatic humour or catarrh |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-04 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
52. Actually, teeth did not rot out of the mediaeval head |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-04 07:05 PM Response to Original message |
54. I wouldn't have been able to get through A Distant Mirror if it |
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