Editing Erasmus (section)

===Health===
Erasmus was a quite sickly man and frequently worked from his sickbed. As a teenager he contracted [[Quartan fever]], a non-lethal type of Malaria which recurred numerous times for the rest of his life: he attributed his survival to the intercession of [[St Genevieve]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Krivatsy |first1=Peter |title=Erasmus' Medical Milieu |journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine |date=1973 |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=113–154 |jstor=44447526 |pmid=4584234  |issn=0007-5140}}</ref>  His digestion gave him trouble: he was intolerant of fish, beer and some wines, which were the standard diet for members of religious orders; he eventually died following an attack of dysentery.

In Cambridge he was ill, possibly with the English [[sweating sickness]]. He suffered kidney stones from his time in Venice and, in late life, with gout<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Benedek |first1=Thomas G. |title=The Gout of Desiderius Erasmus and Willibald Pirckheimer: Medical Autobiography and Its Literary Reflections |journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine |date=1983 |volume=57 |issue=4 |pages=526–544 |jstor=44443063 |pmid=6365217  |issn=0007-5140}}</ref> In 1514, he suffered a fall from his horse and injured his back.

In 1528 he suffered recurrent episodes of the stone, "from which he almost died."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Boyle |first1=Marjorie O'Rourke |title=Erasmus' Prescription for Henry VIII: Logotherapy |journal=Renaissance Quarterly |date=1978 |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=161–172 |doi=10.2307/2860126 |jstor=2860126 |pmid=11620600  |issn=0034-4338}}</ref>
In 1529 his self-removal from Basel was delayed because of headcold and fever.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Carrington |first1=Laurel |title=Desiderius Erasmus. The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2082 to 2203, 1529. Ed. James Estes. Trans. Alexander Dalzell. Collected Works of Erasmus 15. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xxii + 404 pp. $175. ISBN: 978–1–4426–4203–4. |journal=Renaissance Quarterly |date=2013 |volume=66 |issue=1 |pages=180–181 |doi=10.1086/670414}}</ref> In 1530 while traveling he suffered some near-fatal illness which several doctors diagnosed as [[the plague]] (which had killed his parents) but several others diagnosed as not the plague.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Correspondence of Erasmus |date=17 March 2015 |pages=409–412 |doi=10.3138/9781442668331-008 |chapter=Erasmus' Illness in 1530 |isbn=978-1-4426-6833-1 }}</ref>

Various illnesses have been diagnosed of the skeletons claimed to be his, including pustulotic arthro-osteitis,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dequeker |first1=J. |title=Art, history, and rheumatism: the case of Erasmus of Rotterdam 1466–1536 suffering from pustulotic arthro-osteitis. |journal=Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases |date=1 July 1991 |volume=50 |issue=7 |pages=517–521 |doi=10.1136/ard.50.7.517 |pmid=1877862 |pmc=1004472 }}</ref> [[syphilis]] or [[yaws]]. Other doctors have diagnosed from his written descriptions ailments such as rheumatoid arthritis, enteric rheumatism<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Appelboom |first1=T. |last2=Rouffin |first2=C. |last3=Vanherweghem |first3=J. L. |last4=Vanden Branden |first4=J. P. |last5=Ehrlich |first5=G. |title=Can a diagnosis be made in retrospect? The case of Desiderius Erasmus |journal=The Journal of Rheumatology |date=December 1986 |volume=13 |issue=6 |pages=1181–1184 |pmid=3550075 |issn=0315-162X}}</ref> and spondylarthritis.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Appelboom |first1=T. |title=Art and history: a large research avenue for rheumatologists |journal=Rheumatology |date=1 June 2004 |volume=43 |issue=6 |pages=803–805 |doi=10.1093/rheumatology/keg474|pmid=12923286 }}</ref>