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The Pestilence Called ‘Scamach’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

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Type
Correspondence
Copyright
Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1951

References

* In Donegal to-day the common term for ‘pneumonia’ is aicid na scamhán; scamhach, for pneumonia of animals, is not wholly obsolete.