Your main focus in studying should be on the vocabulary.
We will have a short practice quiz (non-credit) next class.
Apollo, who was angry with Agamemnon for his shameful treatment of the priest Chryses, sent a dire plague against the king’s army, and spread death among the people. Iliad I:9–12.
First he smote down the mules and the wild dogs, and then he turned his stinging arrows against mankind. And thickly burned the funeral pyres. Iliad I:50–52.
Chorus. Alas! My sorrows are beyond measure! The whole city is stricken with a pestilence against which human resources seem powerless. The noble earth no longer brings forth its fruits, and women in labor no longer bring forth children…. Deaths beyond all counting have devastated the populace. Corpses lie everywhere, unmourned, harbouring the seeds of death. Here young wives, there grey-haired mothers send up their shrieks of grief at the altar steps. Oedipus the King I:167–185.
I take it that everyone, whether physician or layman, is at liberty to express an opinion about this epidemic, to speculate as to its origins, and to suggest reasons why it proved so devastating. My purpose here is simply to record the events as they occurred, so that if the same disease breaks out again, any observer who is equipped with this information cannot fail to recognize it. I might mention that I not only observed the ravages of the disease in others but contracted it myself. […]
Seneca: recasting Sophocles for readers in Latin.
For more, read Karenberg and Moog (2004); Eisenstein (2005).
trauma, pl. traumata
Both ‘carcinomas’ and ‘traumas’ are, however, acceptable English plurals.
arthritis, pl. arthritides
Only found in technical usage.
The beneficial effects of physical activity on obesity and related health outcomes are generally well understood. In high and middle income countries however, lifestyles have become increasingly sedentary, and physical inactivity has become the fourth leading risk factor for premature mortality. Declining rates of functional active travel have contributed to this population-level decrease in physical activity, and ecological evidence suggests that rising levels of obesity are more pronounced in settings with greater declines in active travel. Active commuting to work has been strongly recommended by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as a feasible way of incorporating greater levels of physical activity into daily life. Data from the 2011 census show that in England and Wales 23.7 million individuals regularly commute to a workplace – more than half of the 41.1 million adults of working age covered by the census.
Now a surgeon should be youthful or at any rate nearer youth than age; with a strong and steady hand which never trembles, and ready to use the left hand as well as the right; with vision sharp and clear, and spirit undaunted; filled with pity, so that he wishes to cure his patient, yet is not moved by his cries, to go too fast, or cut less than is necessary; but he does everything just as if the cries of pain cause him no emotion.