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.
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.
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.
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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 11:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-15 11:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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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