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             Pandora's Word Box 
               Ideas in Words  
  Medical Humanities - Fine Arts - Bioethics 
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To: Esteemed Colleagues, Scholars, Educators, Students, Poets and others who may enjoy the beauty and elegance of ideas in words illustrated by fine arts. 
  
From: W. Wertelecki M.D. 

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	   DIS DISEASE DISABILITY

DISEASE or to be ILL or to have an AILment is to be "NOT at EASE"... SICK, implied that a demon or vampire drained the VITality ... DIS implies separation, as in DISsolve, DIScourage, DISease, DISability ... The ancients linked DISEASE to DIS, a deity that ruled in HADES ... DISEASE in Ukrainian is KHOROBA and JOROBA in Spanish is HUMP or GIBBUS ... underscore the idea of being "burdened" ... being bent ... people had a HUNCH that a HUMP was a sign of ... tuberculosis ...

Continued in: 
http://www.consultsos.com/pandora/intro.htm 

Illustrations: 
Works by Penii, Steen, Cezanne ...

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