why is chicken pox called so?
Answer by Ravi
i think it was originated from humans having sex with chickens...just like how AIDs came from humans having sex with monkeys....not sure about it, but it seems very logical to me. and then after that the people started getting these dots all over the place...so then thats how they got the "pox".
Answer by mompoo
One history of medicine book credits Giovanni Filippo (1510–1580) of Palermo with the first description of varicella (chickenpox). Subsequently in the 1600s, an English physician named Richard Morton described what he thought a mild form of smallpox as "chicken pox." Later, in 1767, a physician named William Heberden, also from England, was the first physician to clearly demonstrate that chickenpox was different from smallpox. However, it is believed the name chickenpox was commonly used in earlier centuries before doctors identified the disease.
There are many explanations offered for the origin of the name chickenpox:
the specks that appear looked as though the skin was pecked by chickens;
the disease was named after chick peas, from a supposed similarity in size of the seed to the lesions;
Samuel Johnson suggested that the disease was "no very great danger," thus a "chicken" version of the pox;
the term reflects a corruption of the Old English word, "giccin", which meant "itching".
As "pox" also means curse, in medieval times some believed it was a plague brought on to curse children by the use of black magic.
During the medieval era, oatmeal was discovered to soothe the sores, and oatmeal baths are today still commonly given to relieve itching.
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