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Ailments of unknown cause

  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorderA child named Leo sits in a classroom, his pencil tapping rhythmically against the desk while his eyes drift toward the window.
  • Parkinson's diseaseIn 1817, English physician James Parkinson published a monograph titled An Essay on the Shaking Palsy. He described six clinical cases he had observed…
  • Alzheimer's diseaseIn 1901, a German psychiatrist named Alois Alzheimer examined a fifty-year-old woman he called Auguste D. Her symptoms included memory loss, hallucinations…
  • Sweating sicknessHenry VII arrived in London on the 28th of August 1485. The disease broke out there on the 19th of September that same year.