Any 17^th-century list of diseases will contain entries surprising and unfamiliar to modern readers. For instance, the great 17^th-century demographer of London, Sir John Graunt, enumerated medical conditions like calenture, chrisomes, impostume, livergrown, purples, tissick, wolf, and sodainly, as well as the more familiar colick and wind, French-pox, itch, killed by several accidents, and poysoned.