A hypothesis on the Achaean disease. Analyzing the text in the light of the modern medical knowledge, the article traces a profile of the mortal illness described in the first book of Homer's Iliad. The disease was a severe, acute epidemic zoonosis, rapidly bringing death. First, it affected mules and dogs, then it involved men; the infection spread quickly and the number of deaths was high. These elements suggest that the illness occurred among the Achaeans can be identified with glanders, an infectious disease affecting primarily mules and horses that can be transmitted to man by contact with these animals.

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[Physical exercise and increase in arterial pressure and temperature in a female heterozygote for anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia].

A 51-year-old woman suffered from an increase in body temperature from 37 degrees to 38.4 degrees C after physical exercise. She did not sweat. The patient also had labile hypertension with maximum values reaching 210/130 mmHg. Tests were carried out to explore the possibility of a link between the increase in body temperature and her hypertension. Evaluation of the patient's blood pressure and temperature changes after exercise and after environmental modification suggests a pathogenetic link between hyperthermia and hypertension.

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