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    Which disease was called "le loup" in the Middle Ages?

    Question #99726. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Sep 27 08 3:51 AM)


    looney_tunes

    		Leprosy, also called Hansen's disease.
    "The disease was shrouded in ignorance and fear, and lepers were treated as outcasts ... Loube is from the Latin, lupa, she wolf, giving ‘le loup’."
    http://www.perso.modulonet.fr/briantimms/toponomy/topotrivia.htm


    Sep 27 08, 5:10 AM

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