Didn't Bart spell it with an e at the end? Maybe I'm remembering wrong. I guess there's no reason to do such alarming things, even in pursuit of Simpsonness. I was looking up hilarious diseases that Grandpa thinks still exist, and I was slightly saddened to find that dropsy is just edema. Juggler's Despair is still pretty cool, though.
Not that I could locate, but there's <a href="http://www.oldmansimpson.com/index.php?page=sounds>this, at least</a>. I'd always thought it was 'grippe', but I guess either way is okay.
And King's Evil (aka scrofula) is tuberculosis of the lymph nodes around the neck, and the ague is a general term for a disease involving serious fever that probably usually referred to malaria.
I was going to say that "malaria" is a silly term in itself since it means "bad air", but I suppose that air that is full of malaria-carrying mosquitoes is indeed bad air.
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Date: 2007-03-15 10:22 pm (UTC)"It's a spare -- but I don't think you wannnnt it!" - Bugs
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Date: 2007-03-15 11:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-15 11:16 pm (UTC)I was looking up hilarious diseases that Grandpa thinks still exist, and I was slightly saddened to find that dropsy is just edema.
Juggler's Despair is still pretty cool, though.
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Date: 2007-03-15 11:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-03-16 12:45 am (UTC)I was going to say that "malaria" is a silly term in itself since it means "bad air", but I suppose that air that is full of malaria-carrying mosquitoes is indeed bad air.
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Date: 2007-03-16 12:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
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