Brewer's: Diphthera

The skin of the goat Amalthe'a 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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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