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Author Topic:   disease deborahknowles Senior Member posted 04-08-2005 06:35 PM             I'm sure I read something somewhere about 'gaol fever'. Has anybody heard of it? If it existed, what were its symptoms? Merci beaucoup! ------------------ Peter Member posted 04-09-2005 04:16 AM             No. But if you are mentioning it in relation with medieval times? I would have thought places of those times would not be the healthyist to be locked up in. So the saying could arise from then. Go in more or less healthy, and come out (if lucky!) stark raving bonkers. Peter Paul unregistered posted 04-09-2005 10:23 AM            "Gaol fever" was typhus, a disease caused by bacteria spreading through the bites of lice and fleas. The infection causes headache, fever and a rash of red spots. It arrived in Europe in the 15th century, and there was a fearful epidemic in 1557-59.I hope that this is helpful to you. Paul. deborahknowles Senior Member posted 04-09-2005 05:33 PM             Brilliant! I knew I wasn't going mad.Cheers. ------------------ Paul unregistered posted 04-09-2005 08:03 PM            What made you think that you were going mad? Glad to be of assistance. Paul.

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