Klarinet Archive - Posting 000034.txt from 2008/03

From: "Christophe ASTIER" <christophe.astier@-----.fr>
Subj: Re: [kl] Renaissance Migraine (warning: off-topic)
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:29:07 -0500


Hello all,

It definitely means "Who wants to get rid of his migraine (headache)".

The meaning of migraine has not changed since... well since people
suffer from migraine (the etimology of it is from "mi-graine" or
"mi-crane" that is "half of the brain", refering to the fact that in
a migraine usually one side of the head is at pain.

If music doesn't work, I recommend sumatriptans (eg : Zomig).

Cheers.
Christophe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 8:17 PM
Subject: [kl] Renaissance Migraine (warning: off-topic)

> I'm cataloguing a bookcase full of old LPs. I've just run across a track
> called Qui veut chasser une migraine (1615) by Gabriel Bataille on an
> album
> of Renaissance dances. Does anyone know what the title would have meant in
> modern English? With my rudimentary French (unused in 45 years) I'm not
> sure
> if it has something to do (sarcastically) with chasing after (hunting for)
> a
> headache or getting rid of one (driving one out). And would a migraine
> have
> meant the same thing 400 years ago that it means today?
>
> Just curious.
>
> Karl
>
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