Hippocrates described it, calling it "the unwalkable disease," and Galen (the gladiator's surgeon) reckoned it was caused by the accumulation of humors in the afflicted part.
Catholic churches and chapels throughout the world are hung with countless small ex-votos, usually cutouts of stamped tin or silver in the shape of an afflicted part of the body an arm, a leg, or an eye or of the heart or other symbol.
This coincides with some of the colder periods of what was called, in Europe, the little ice age, a five-century span in which unusual cold afflicted parts of the Northern Hemisphere from time to time.
MWENGA, Democratic Republic of Congo — As his plane cut through the clouds above eastern Congo on Friday, John Holmes, the United Nations' top humanitarian official, looked down pensively at the miles and miles of thick forest covering one of the most chronically afflicted parts of Africa, if not the world.
The importance of OpenStreetMap can be ascertained from the fact that soon after the earthquake, OpenStreetMap had become the de facto source of data to map the crisis afflicted parts of Haiti for most of the UN agencies (Initiative et al. 2010).
But while it's important to point that out, it's equally important to mention the grinding rural poverty that has afflicted parts of Hungary ever since Soviet-era factories were shut down.
The most heavily afflicted parts of the world are sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and China.
The turmoil afflicting parts of America's giant residential mortgage market has already claimed dozens of casualties, including two Bear Stearns hedge funds that bet the wrong way on structured products backed by loans to subprime borrowers.
David Cameron has come under withering attack from the European Commission, accused of failing to get to grips with the levels of air pollution in Britain after he labelled the smog afflicting parts of the country a "naturally occurring weather phenomenon".
A mania for "the heedrum-hodrum Celtic twilight", which is afflicting parts of northern Europe, is one of the topics to be researched at a new centre for the study of the Scottish diaspora at Edinburgh University.
Burning coal is a big cause of the severe air pollution afflicting parts of China, and, through waste from coal-washing and underground leakage, of contaminated water and degraded soil.China is working hard to develop other sources of energy and to lessen the "energy intensity" of its growth (the energy needed per extra unit of GDP).
