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.sick malaria / malaria* [s.19] -- Tropenfieber: febris tropica [Soc. Lat.] (HELF.) ]] malus
aër, morbus (v. febris) palustris (LRL) < Exstabat hic morbus antiquitus; sciendum quid
audierit apud Hippocraten, alios. EB s.v. malaria: "Malaria is one of the most ancient
infections known. It was noted in some of the West's earliest medical records in the 5th
century BC, when Hippocrates differentiated malarial fevers into three types according
to their time cycles. It is not known when malaria first made its appearance in the
Americas, but it is highly probable that it was a post-Columbian importation; some
rather severe epidemics were first noted in 1493."
DAVID MORGAN
Professor of French
Department of Modern
Languages and Literatures
Furman University