Remember Old Mithridates, the King who couldn’t die by his own poison? Here’s a reminder from poet A.E. Houseman (collected in A Shropshire Lad, 1896): There was… Read more “Got Pandemics – Pt. 2: Which of the Gods, in the Name of Truth, Fixed These Absurd Proportions?”
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Got Pandemics? We’ve Got Panaceas! Mithridate, Pt. 1
First, a few etymologies: Pandemic comes from pandēmos (Greek) = pan ‘all’) + dēmos ‘people’; therefore “all people”, as opposed to epidemic (epi=upon, hence “upon people”). Panacea… Read more “Got Pandemics? We’ve Got Panaceas! Mithridate, Pt. 1”