Talk:Montezuma's Revenge (illness)

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[edit] St. Augustine

This is a question for the medical community about traveling in ancient days. When Augustine moved from Carthage to Rome, he reports in his Confessions that "Rome welcomed me with the scourge of bodily illness." Would it have been common-- almost expected-- for travelers to get very sick in the 5th century? Without any clean drinking water ANYWHERE, would all travelers have to develop resistance to new bacteria wherever they went?

[edit] Suggest merging most of the medical stuff here into traveller's sickness

...leaving at most the historical/lexicographical material, and a link. --Joe Decker 05:15, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Only if it improves the readability of Traveller's Sickness. That page is dry and boring. This one is very well written, as well as practical. -205.201.141.146 15:30, 28 March 2007 (UTC)