 | Muck Addinall, the last surviving specimen of Homo Defectus, wrote
in <1103086979.804457.249500@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>:
Nothing relevant to act-b.
> "eunometic" wrote:
> > "Addinall" wrote:
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> > > Trachoma was a disease of the urban slums in Europe, as people
> > > left their relatively healthy rural homes they were crowded into
> > > the workhouses and slums created by the industrial revolution.
> >
> > Wrong.
> >
> > It came to Europe from Nth Africa and was brought into Europe by
> > Napoleon soldiers.
>
> Hippocrates and Galen refer to trachoma and its treatment in their
> medical texts.
And that contests his statement... *how*, exactly?
> The first record of the word trachoma is attributed
> to Dioscorides in a.d. 60.
IOW, long after Rome conquered North Africa and started putting North
Africans into the gladiator schools.
Given the standards of hygeine there, the disease could have been
present without spreading, and would have died out with the circus,
or the last infected North African gladiator, whichever came first.
> The term derives from the Greek for
> (rough eye). A few years prior to the Napoleonic wars. Or are you
> going to argue that Greece isn't in Europe?
Are you going to argue that the disease was present *after* their time?
If so, where's your evidence?
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Piss off, troll.
Ned
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