Abstract
The word "limophōros", a hapax legomenon appearing in Polybius' Histories, does not mean scurvy, but rather scabies. Polybius created the word to describe an illness he believed was derived from a nutritional deficit, but can really only be seen as an attempt to describe an illness the etiology of which he was wholly unfamiliar.
Publication types
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Biography
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English Abstract
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Historical Article
MeSH terms
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Deficiency Diseases* / diagnosis
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Deficiency Diseases* / epidemiology
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Deficiency Diseases* / etiology
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Deficiency Diseases* / history
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Diagnosis
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Greek World / history
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History
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History, Ancient
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Philology, Classical* / history
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Roman World / history
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Scabies* / diagnosis
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Scabies* / epidemiology
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Scabies* / etiology
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Scabies* / history
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Scurvy* / diagnosis
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Scurvy* / epidemiology
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Scurvy* / etiology
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Scurvy* / history
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Skin Diseases* / diagnosis
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Skin Diseases* / epidemiology
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Skin Diseases* / etiology
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Skin Diseases* / history
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Terminology as Topic