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--- Padraic Brown <elemtilas@hidden.email> wrote: > > Now, I certainly HOPE C-a > > gives up phlebotomy along with the rest of the > > world > > in the 1800's, but we'll have to see how things > > evolve. > > Actually, I think it was alive into the early > 20th century. Hey - there's a good Greek root > that could pass into C-a (perhaps through > Arabic?): phleb-, a blood vessel. > > Padraic. > Well, from what I gathered it is STILL practiced in India and some other places. But the stuff I was reading said it came to be viewed as quackery in the mid to late 1800's but went on to give sitations from texts recommending its use up to the 1940's!!! As for phleb- passing into C-a. . . hmm. This requires more looking into. I haven't borrowed in nearly enough Greek roots, yet. Perhaps medicine *should* be a major field alongside religion. I probably have more Greek roots than I realize, though, since Latin borrowed massively from Greek and my Latin dictionary wouldn't know an etymology if it was bitten by one. . . .Though that nifty dictionary of Later Latin upto 600AD *does* mark etymons and is the source for quite a few of my Punic words (almost all plant names) and a couple of Coptic and Hebrew borrowings to boot. I'll need to make another pass through it for Greek roots. The first time through I was only scanning for anything *other than* Greek since there are just TOO many Hellenisms. Adam