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Offline snwbnnyinoz

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Re:Link: Disease in History
« on: Tuesday 08 June 04 19:57 BST (UK) »
What a great website.  Shows that Frogg is the same as Croup.  I wonder if thats where the saying,"I've got a frog in my throat" comes from.

Paula

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Disease in History This site features an interesting glossary of old disease names.
http://www.bignell.uk.com/disease_in_history.htm

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Re:Link: Disease in History
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 09 June 04 22:39 BST (UK) »
I've always wondered what "consumption" was - now I know yet another ancestor died from tuberculosis!

Bel
Researching
ARTHUR, ROBERTS, LEWIS and WILLIAMS in Denbighshire/Merionethshire/Glamorgan
EVANS and JONES in Montgomeryshire
FALLOW(E)S, JONES, PREECE and GITTON in Shropshire
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(March 2006) Now looking for HINKS, SPARKES, INGRAM from West Midlands area

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Re:Link: Disease in History
« Reply #2 on: Monday 28 February 05 18:10 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

I believe that Croup is the wrong definition for Frogg.

I found in Hooper’s Lexicon-Medicum of 1829 that Frog is defined as Aphthae. And Aphthae is defined as: Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

A good website for archaic medical terms is www.antiquusmorbus.com

Best Regards, Rumire
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