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Re: JF: many minor corrections concerning PF,
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Jerry Friedman wrote:
>Nick Grundy wrote interestingly about miliary tuberculosis,
>but I think "nebulae" suggest a cloudy appearance on an
>x-ray picture, not star-like dots. Of course I may have
>been wrong in thinking pneumonia would produce "clouds".
Judging from images of nebulae such as these:
http://astro.uchicago.edu/~grodnick/gallery/nebulae/r259c2f524.gif
http://astro.uchicago.edu/~grodnick/gallery/nebulae/r211c3f288.gif
You're quite right, and my miliary TB argument rather falls down - although
Matthew / Sergei's original one about plain tuberculosis is still viable.
The only thing that gives me hope is that wikipedia claims that:
"Originally *nebula* was a general name for any extended
astronomical<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy>
object <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_object>, including
galaxies <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy> beyond the Milky
Way<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way>(some examples of the older
usage survive; for example, the Andromeda
Galaxy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy> is sometimes referred
to as the *Andromeda Nebula*)."
If that's the case, and if the old usage would have been current at the time
of writing of PF, the miliary TB argument might stand up - but that's
getting too tenous, I think.
Nick.
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>Nick Grundy wrote interestingly about miliary tuberculosis,
>but I think "nebulae" suggest a cloudy appearance on an
>x-ray picture, not star-like dots. Of course I may have
>been wrong in thinking pneumonia would produce "clouds".
Judging from images of nebulae such as these:
http://astro.uchicago.edu/~grodnick/gallery/nebulae/r259c2f524.gif
http://astro.uchicago.edu/~grodnick/gallery/nebulae/r211c3f288.gif
You're quite right, and my miliary TB argument rather falls down - although
Matthew / Sergei's original one about plain tuberculosis is still viable.
The only thing that gives me hope is that wikipedia claims that:
"Originally *nebula* was a general name for any extended
astronomical<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy>
object <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_object>, including
galaxies <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy> beyond the Milky
Way<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way>(some examples of the older
usage survive; for example, the Andromeda
Galaxy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy> is sometimes referred
to as the *Andromeda Nebula*)."
If that's the case, and if the old usage would have been current at the time
of writing of PF, the miliary TB argument might stand up - but that's
getting too tenous, I think.
Nick.
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