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An excerpt
Sunday, 10 December 2006 09:15From: Magical Mushrooms, Mysterious Molds, by George Hudler:
The 'official' name of the disease has a curious history. Ernest Dickson, who did much of the early work on coccidioidomycosis, was a bit of a poet as well as a medical mycologist, and he was compelled to make the name of this disease pleasing to the ear when spoken or sung. Thus, rather than giving it the more logical name of "coccidiomycosis," he added an extra "ido" to give us "coccidioidomycosis." And in that spirit, the following jingle was often presented as a part of a tribute to this early work:
Some fungi produce a mycosis
Like blasto- or histoplasmosis
But for muscial sake
The one I will take
Is coccidioidomycosis.
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This disease, incidentally, appeared on a recent episode of House, I believe. Two veterinary pathogens and it was the one this season that I missed.
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Two days.
The 'official' name of the disease has a curious history. Ernest Dickson, who did much of the early work on coccidioidomycosis, was a bit of a poet as well as a medical mycologist, and he was compelled to make the name of this disease pleasing to the ear when spoken or sung. Thus, rather than giving it the more logical name of "coccidiomycosis," he added an extra "ido" to give us "coccidioidomycosis." And in that spirit, the following jingle was often presented as a part of a tribute to this early work:
Some fungi produce a mycosis
Like blasto- or histoplasmosis
But for muscial sake
The one I will take
Is coccidioidomycosis.
---
This disease, incidentally, appeared on a recent episode of House, I believe. Two veterinary pathogens and it was the one this season that I missed.
---
Two days.
