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Post-traumatic stress disorder among returning service members is a particularly difficult malady to deal with.
Monomania, a 19th-century malady to which my 21st-century immune system had developed no defenses, had crept into my soul, like gout into a poet's foot, and spoiled it by degrees.
Here is what I said then, and what I still feel: "There is a malady to which poets are susceptible, and to which they rarely admit, except to themselves, and even then only reluctantly.
In 1530, an Italian physician penned an epic poem about a young shepherd named Syphilis, who so angered Apollo that the god struck him down with a disfiguring malady to destroy his good looks.
But with 1968 (the phenomenon more than the year), youth emerged as the fundamental health of the being, and adulthood became a malady to avoid or to be cured of; and the ideals of men suddenly changed to match, with versions of play rising to fire ambition and capture the imagination.
Now, a new study adds one more potential malady to the list: rheumatoid arthritis.
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A cold, a stomach bug — garden-variety maladies, to be sure.
Nostalgia had been considered a disorder ever since the term was coined by a 17th-century Swiss physician who attributed soldiers' mental and physical maladies to their longing to return home — nostos in Greek, and the accompanying pain, algos.
The same tone could be heard through so much of children's fiction, as if childhood itself and the child's imagination were maladies to be repressed and punished.
She suggested that people are taking advantage of such maladies to get extra health benefits, adding that she doesn't see why she should have to subsidize maternity benefits for other people either, especially since, as she said, she's not having any more babies.
But, to attribute these social maladies to having gay parents is rather mistaken.
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