TY - JOUR
T1 - The Thucydides Syndrome
T2 - The Authors Reply
AU - Langmuir, Alexander D.
AU - Worthen, Thomas D.
AU - Solomon, Jon
AU - Ray, C. George
AU - Petersen, Eskild
PY - 1986/10/30
Y1 - 1986/10/30
N2 - The observations of Poole and Holladay1 in 1979, that the microbial parasite and host complex is in constant flux and therefore that historians of medicine must be duly cautious when attributing a currently named disease or syndrome to an ancient description, were fundamental to our original proposition. None-theless, we have taken the view, dismissed by them, that the plague of Athens was a disease or mixture of diseases that Thucydides described well enough to enable us to recognize it. We cannot speculate about which of our 13 hemagglutinin types of influenza, if any, was prevalent in Thucydides' day or how.
AB - The observations of Poole and Holladay1 in 1979, that the microbial parasite and host complex is in constant flux and therefore that historians of medicine must be duly cautious when attributing a currently named disease or syndrome to an ancient description, were fundamental to our original proposition. None-theless, we have taken the view, dismissed by them, that the plague of Athens was a disease or mixture of diseases that Thucydides described well enough to enable us to recognize it. We cannot speculate about which of our 13 hemagglutinin types of influenza, if any, was prevalent in Thucydides' day or how.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198610303151824
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198610303151824
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:84960599253
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 315
SP - 1172
EP - 1173
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 18
ER -