The question, anyway, is whether your story is set on Earth... On Jul 26, 2012 8:57 PM, "Parks White" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Origin of the word cancer > > The origin of the word cancer is credited to the Greek physician > Hippocrates (460-370 BC), who is considered the “Father of Medicine.” > Hippocrates used the terms *carcinos* and *carcinoma* to describe > non-ulcer forming and ulcer-forming tumors. In Greek, these words refer to > a crab, most likely applied to the disease because the finger-like > spreading projections from a cancer called to mind the shape of a crab. The > Roman physician, Celsus (28-50 BC), later translated the Greek term into* > cancer*, the Latin word for crab. Galen (130-200 AD), another Roman > physician, used the word *oncos* (Greek for swelling) to describe tumors. > Although the crab analogy of Hippocrates and Celsus is still used to > describe malignant tumors, Galen’s term is now used as a part of the name > for cancer specialists — oncologists. > > Sent from my iPad > > On 27/07/2012, at 1:25 PM, dershem <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/26/2012 6:18 PM, LAR wrote: > > Seems to me, that as dialogue - you may be correct. Not sure when such > > terms were introduced. As a narrative however it would be geared to the > > reading audience, not the setting. > > > Larry > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Nat Russo <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>>> wrote: > > > I was writing earlier today and realized I may have been guilty of > > anachronism. If you are writing about a pre-industrial society, > > would it be anachronism to use "...ate away at him like a cancer" as > > a metaphor? > > A pre-industrial society knows nothing of "cancer", right? Well, > > *my* pre-industrial society doesn't, I should say. > > > Just one of those curious tidbits that's likely to...well....eat > > away at me like a cancer. /wink /nudge #seewhatIdidthere > > > Nat > > > Depends on the society. Remember that in 1776 they knew at least one form > of Cancer, and called it that - "the Cancer". > > cd > -- > http://projectselene.com > > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.18500) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= > >
