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Fwd: [romanceconlang] Folk diseases

Okay, I flubbed the name the first go-round.  Second
try.

Adam
--- Adam Walker <carrajena@hidden.email> wrote:
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> CC: romconlang@hidden.email
> From: Adam Walker <carrajena@hidden.email>
> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:04:35 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: [romanceconlang] Folk diseases
> 
> I am at least attempting to cross post this to both
> the old and the new lists.
> 
> I've been working on disease names in Carrajena and
> started thinking about something.  Currently C-a
> exists up to about 1400 or 1500 (weekly vocab's
> notwithstanding).  English has a lot of old folk
> names
> for diseases.  Many of these are still in current
> use
> alongside the modern techical terms.  Others are
> terms
> I was unfamiliar with until I started researching my
> family tree and going through old death registers
> looking for ancestors.  
> 
> Below is a list of some of these folk terms.  What
> I'm
> wondering about is what are some equivilant folk
> terms
> in real or con romance langs?
> 
> the piles
> black tongue fever
> black water fever
> the hyderphobie
> the rheumatiz
> the heebie jeebies
> fever 'n' ague
> the summer complaint
> the congestion
> the consumption
> the itch
> heart trouble
> stomach trouble
> the bloody flux
> the vapors
> having a spell
> palpatations
> 
> Some of these are, of course, either corruptions of
> techincal terms or extended applications thereof.
> 
> And of course I'm open to any and all additions to
> this list in its English or Romance versions.
> 
> Adam
> 
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Il prori ul pa&#38621;veju fi dji atexindu mutu madji
fached. -- Carrajena proverb