"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Why Do They Call It Chickenpox? I've heard that question more times than I can count this week. I haven't been able to come up with a definitive answer. (I guess that's why the question keeps getting repeated.) Some say it's to distinguish it from smallpox - in which the bumps are bigger. (That was my first answer - a complete guess. He didn't buy it.) Some say it's because it is a pox that primarily affects children ("chicks"), and others say it's because the rash looks like chickpeas (Least likely. Were chickpeas common in the West when the word "chickenpox" came about?) The American Heritage Dictionary favors the first explanation, as do these language mavens. posted by Sydney on
11/30/2005 05:55:00 AM
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