the.com/disease
The body filing a complaint; sometimes it wins, sometimes you do.
means An illness or disorder that impairs normal functioning — a specific, identifiable way the body or mind goes wrong.
from From Old French 'desaise' — literally 'dis-' (without) plus 'aise' (ease, comfort). So a disease was first just 'the absence of ease,' a general state of discomfort, before it narrowed over centuries into the specific medical diagnoses we use the word for today.
- not same as illness
- disease is biological, illness is how you feel
- germ theory
- only accepted mainstream in the 1860s
- oldest known
- tuberculosis traces back over 9000 years
- not all contagious
- heart disease spreads through habits, not handshakes