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The skin of the goat Amaltheʹa, on which Jove wrote the destiny of man. Diphtheria is an infectious disease of the throat; so called from its tendency to form a false membrane.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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