Medical Condition?

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walsworth

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Do you know any people, well known or not, who have names that sound like a medical condition?

I'll start with "Box Car Willie"
 
Not really, but whats your favourite disease?

I think diseases in the old days had more character and better names. Bubolic plague, Black Death and so on. All a bit drab these days
 
Anita Harris?
I suppose that's more cosmetic than medical though.

Willie Nelson?
Sounds more like a wrestling hold.
 
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The only thing I can think of is a character created by Mike Harding in the Irwell Delta Blues.

"... Whistling Willie Ramsbottom ... he had a lot of problems, that lad."
 
You'll find that was 'bubonic' plague, Clivex - although the idea of combining bubonic and bucolic is quite appealing!

Diseases can sound colourful: yellow fever, the red death, the black death, blackwater fever, etc.

I like the sound of 'scrofula' from the old days, or having the 'ague'. People died romantically of 'wasting diseases' (now known as cancers or tuberculosis) and surfeits of things, mostly too much of one thing or another to eat. Interesting to note that back in the 1100s or 1200s, some royalty died of constipation. Probably as a result of a surfeit of large dinners. Thank God for Ex-Lax!
 
Is that true Krizon? Jesus...dying of constipation....

what a way to go....

wouldnt want to do the autopsy....
 
Clivex - yes, it's really yukky, isn't it? I'm honestly not sure where I read the reasons for the deaths of ancient kings and queens (it might've been online), but along with 'murdered', 'killed in battle', 'pox', etc., there were definitely two which stated 'constipation'! There was also a condition called a megacolon - this is a more ghastly condition - I also read about this, where an archaeological team had found the remains of some old-time warrior, still preserved in his leather clothing, who'd died from it. It seems that the colon keeps getting bigger and bigger and while food goes in, it doesn't, er, come out. Like the mother of all constipation! This poor soul had devised a huge leather strap to support his gigantic gut, but the feeling of the team was that, without anything like today's medical interventions, he eventually died of internal poisoning. It might even be that that was the condition these ancients died of. As you say - you'd definitely want to be well upwind of any autopsy!
 
Walsy is going to pan them, anyway... sorry, this is pretty far off-topic, so in line with the original thought, how about Engelbert Humperdinck? That always sounded like a nasty case of something!
 
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