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: 2007-03-16 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)