Malaria : a neglected factor in the history of Greece and Rome / by W.H.S. Jones ; with an introduction by Sir R. Ross ; a concluding chapter by G.G. Ellett.

  • W. H. S. Jones
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[1907]
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Credit: Malaria : a neglected factor in the history of Greece and Rome / by W.H.S. Jones ; with an introduction by Sir R. Ross ; a concluding chapter by G.G. Ellett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in Greece. It seems likely, however, to judge from the usage of later non-medical writers, that either voao? or the plural would have been used if a disease had been meant. In any case, even if “fever” be the meaning here, it is not necessarily malaria. It might very well be typhoid. In the present inquiry that meaning will be assumed to be true which tells most ag*ainst the writers own theory. After this solitary instance in Homer there is a large gap. Hesiod does not appear to use TrvpeTos, although he might well have been expected to do so. The present writer cannot find that the word occurs again be- fore Aristophanes. Herodotus does not use it, nor does Thucydides. It is remarkable that when the latter, in his description of the plague, wishes to express “feverishness,” he seems to avoid the word 7ruperos, and uses instead Kav^a or Oepjmtj.1 On the other hand, when Galen is describing the same plague and is roughly quoting the words of Thucydides, he employs irvpero? twice within a few lines.2 The places in Aristophanes, where 7rvperog 1Thucyd. II. 49. 27repl dicupopQv Tvper&v, Kuhn, VII. 290: Kadd <f)r]<riv 6 Qovkv818tjs. d\\’ ev /caAd/Scus1 TrvLyrjpals Copy dtpovs diaiTupceviov 6 <pd6pos Kara to adfia iyivero. rep 8’ elvai rods iv r<p crd)p.aTi x^Mods in p,ox^VP^ dialTrjs iiri- TrjSeiovs els arj\f/LV dpx^l rod Xoijutbdovs ylverai wperou. Tdxa ^ Kal xard to £vvexbs £% Aldioirias ipptir] Tiva <n)Tre8ovd}8rj fudafiaTa. tois iirLTrjdelios £xov<n <rt6/mra (3\a(37jvcu irpos olvt&v, atTia irvpeTOv yevr](xbp.eva.