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... the general feeling of the ancient writers , who , with very few exceptions , name Egypt as the source . Hence we find Lucretius , when speaking of elephantiasis , t a disease D 2 LEPROSY . 35 But this confusion, however, is by no ...
... the general feeling of the ancient writers , who , with very few exceptions , name Egypt as the source . Hence we find Lucretius , when speaking of elephantiasis , t a disease D 2 LEPROSY . 35 But this confusion, however, is by no ...
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Thomas Shapter. Lucretius , when speaking of elephantiasis , t a disease often confounded with leprosy , asserting , - " Est Elephas morbus , qui propter flumina Nili , Gignitur Ægypto in media . ” — De Rerum Natura . The authority of ...
Thomas Shapter. Lucretius , when speaking of elephantiasis , t a disease often confounded with leprosy , asserting , - " Est Elephas morbus , qui propter flumina Nili , Gignitur Ægypto in media . ” — De Rerum Natura . The authority of ...
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... Elephantiasis , to- tally different in their natures , and applying them to these . The true tubercular ele- phantiasis of the Greeks was called Jugam , and the thick or Barbadoes leg was termed Elephas and Elephantia . But then we find ...
... Elephantiasis , to- tally different in their natures , and applying them to these . The true tubercular ele- phantiasis of the Greeks was called Jugam , and the thick or Barbadoes leg was termed Elephas and Elephantia . But then we find ...
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Thomas Shapter. But then we find that Elephantiasis , pro- perly so called , is styled Elephantia , by ( the translator of ) Haly Abbas - thus confusing the true tubercular disease with the large leg and then by the translators of ...
Thomas Shapter. But then we find that Elephantiasis , pro- perly so called , is styled Elephantia , by ( the translator of ) Haly Abbas - thus confusing the true tubercular disease with the large leg and then by the translators of ...
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... elephantiasis , which involved the whole in further confusion , especially when we bear in mind that the elephantiasis of the Arabians was a different disease from that of the Greeks . By a reference to the following , the true state of ...
... elephantiasis , which involved the whole in further confusion , especially when we bear in mind that the elephantiasis of the Arabians was a different disease from that of the Greeks . By a reference to the following , the true state of ...
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