In the above story we have also the explanation of one synonym of epilepsy, the morbus sancti Iohannis.
Tuberculous disease of the hip, morbus coxæ, or “hip-joint disease,” is especially common in the poorer classes.
This stroke alludes to a rumour of the times, noticed also by Clarendon, that Pym died of the morbus pediculosus.
It often attacks men in crowds, when excited by oratory or sport, hence the Roman name: morbus comitialis (crowd sickness).
