Glad to be of help. I've collected a huge bibliography of links, you are more than welcome to a copy - mostly agricultural vs herbal of course. Carrig -...
Well, it's been over 3 weeks since I attempted to make Rose-hip jelly. When I first made it, it didn't set, and I ended up with canned rose-hip syrup. Now,...
Dear Arastorm, Stefan has been asking for herbal stuff for the Florilegium. Would you mind if I sent this to him? Or would you like to re-write it and send it...
I'm looking for the German? Swedish? site that has lots of herb and spice names in a whole bunch of different languages. And I'm trying to find the Bosnian...
Dear Sharon, The site you're looking for is Gernot Katzer's sit (German indeed): http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/ Good luck! Suhayma ... names in a...
... It's apparently "rabarbem". Jadwiga, the librarian, will be amused at how I figured this out. I went to yourDictionary.com, which has *gazillions* of...
Great minds think alike, Steffan. I did the same thing. But I wasn't competely happy with the result -- rabarbem is the word in Swedish, too. You know how...
Alexandra wrote: << Great minds think alike, Steffan. I did the same thing. But I wasn't competely happy with the result -- rabarbem is the word in Swedish,...
Dear Steffan, Well, we could just wait for the original poster to get back to us to see if the word made any sense to the person she was sending it to, eh? ...
I got a question tonight about the term 'dropsy', and I was unsure of the answer. I seem to recall thinking that it meant epilepsy, but then reading that it...
According to Mosby's Medical Dictionary: hydrops [Gk, dropsy], an abnormal accumulation of clear, watery fluid in a body tissue or cavity, such as a joint, a...
Thanks, I knew it wasn't epilepsy, but could not remember what it actually was. Reading the definition below, I know why I couldn't remember it! Christianna ...
Don't feel bad--I'm a nurse and couldn't remember what it was either :) Apollonia kingstaste@... wrote: Thanks, I knew it wasn't epilepsy, but could...
... It's also used where modern medical language would use 'edema'. OED on dropsy: ". A morbid condition characterized by the accumulation of watery fluid in...
... "Dropsy" is an archaic term for the edema of the extremeties (canonically, the swollen ankles) seen in congestive heart failure. Steve Mesnick, RPh ...
... Hm... but wouldn't Steffan ap Kennydd be able to describe dropsy in simple terms? From the way the term is used in medieval writing, it's pretty clear to...
I don't have it handy, but the woman that was saying it was epilepsy said that Shakespeare used it to describe the sickness afflicting Julius Ceasar - was she...
... Oh, the baron surely knows what dropsy is and can define it, but only operationally. He doesn't know the true cause of it (CHF), and can only explain it in...
... failure. ... She is confusing it with the falling sickness: "But, soft, I pray you: what, did Caesar swound? He fell down in the market-place, and foamed...
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I actually told her I thought it was 'falling sickness' that they describe Ceasar as having, but she was very sure it was dropsy. Of course, we now know she...
The flu vaccine shortage has led me to thinking about how there weren't any flu vaccines 400+ years ago. Anyone know how people strengthened their immune...
... any ... If the 1918 flu epidemic is anything to go by, a lot of them just died. I know two of my father's sisters did. And I'm not sure that the idea of ...
if i remember hearing correctly, people rarely if ever die from influenza, its the opportunistic secondary infections like pneumonia that cause the death toll,...
if i remember hearing correctly, people rarely if ever die from influenza, its the opportunistic secondary infections like pneumonia that cause the death toll,...
