Twelve Tables, Law of the (sh) and hospital fever (medicine)

Twelve Tables, Law of the (sh)

Earliest codification of ancient Roman law, traditionally dated to 451-450 BC.

They were purportedly written at the demand of the plebeians, who felt that their legal rights were hampered by the fact that court judgments were rendered according to unwritten custom preserved only within a small group of learned patricians. The Twelve Tables were not a reform or a liberalizing of old custom; they recognized the prerogatives of the patrician class and of the patriarchal family, the validity of enslavement for unpaid Debt, and the interference of religious custom in civil cases. Because only random quotations from the Twelve Tables are extant, knowledge about their contents is largely derived from references in later juridical writings. Venerated by the Romans as a prime legal source, the Twelve Tables were superseded by later changes in Roman law but were never formally abolished.

hospital fever (medicine)

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epidemic typhus
<infectious disease> A severe acute disease with prolonged high fever up to 40?C (104?F), intractable headache, and a pink-to-red raised rash. The cause is a microorganism called Rickettsia prowazekii.

It is found worldwide and is transmitted by lice. The lice become infected on typhus patients and transmit illness to Other people. The mortality increases with age and over half of untreated persons age 50 or more die.

Also called European, classic, or louse-borne typhus and jail fever.

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