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English Disease

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English Disease
(1) Depression
(2) Football (soccer) hooliganism
(3) Hypochondriasis
(4) Rickets (lack of sun)
(5) Sweating sickness (sudor anglicus); occurred in an epidemic in the early 1500s; attributed to a hantavirus
(6) Syphilis
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Although the English Disease can apparently be traced back to the Middle Ages, when Edward II banned football because he believed the disorder surrounding matches might lead to social unrest or even treason, it has somehow seeped into international social groups causing so much trouble.
Hooliganism: the ugly rush by Cyprus Mail (Cyprus)
Queuing, regarded as the English disease, is as natural to Britain as jaw dropping is to Gordon Brown.
More or bore by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
Hamish Meldrum, BMA chairman, said: "The market is now a peculiarly English disease.
NHS reform like a supermarket war, say doctors by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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