What even is the grip?
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Did a quick google, seems to have been a term used for the flu
Also the cold. In my parents Spanish (Central America), we still use "gripe" to refer to any disease with flu like symptoms.
Still to this day means flu in Quebec
"Grippe" is the German word for flu.
I know that some German words have become unpopular during WW1.
I read about e.g. the term "German Measles" being more widely used, but this literally contains the word "German"...
"Grippe" was still used in American movies in the mid-1950s.
Better catch that than "the evil", which refers to leprosy!
Ker-cheez
Everett, go home and stop infecting everyone else. Or are you too clever for germ theory?
By the early 19th century, smallpox vaccination was commonplace in Europe, though doctors were unaware of how it worked or how to extend the principle to other diseases. A transitional period began in the late 1850s with the work of Louis Pasteur. This work was later extended by Robert Koch in the 1880s. By the end of that decade, the miasma theory was struggling to compete with the germ theory of disease. Viruses were initially discovered in the 1890s. Eventually, a "golden era" of bacteriology ensued, during which the germ theory quickly led to the identification of the actual organisms that cause many diseases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease
Looks like germ theory was around and starting to become accepted in the medical community, but it probably hadn't become widely known by the general population.
Classic "Thanks, I'm cured!"
Also, offering medical advice the other person did not ask you to give is incitement to violence. I think it should be prosecutable and the prosecutor should be my foot, kicking you as hard as I can.