This alarming malady soon became known as the sweating sickness. He endured a veritable Odyssey of malady, indigence and misfortune. Florentino suffers from this just as he might suffer from any malady. Late in February the malady from which he was suffering grew worse. Particularly, French physician Charles Lepois insisted that hysteria was a malady of the brain. She received hypnosis as a treatment to uncover a cause of her malady. Rampant corruption is a major national malady. In northern Italy, epilepsy was once traditionally known as Saint Valentine's malady. A few months after his arrival, however, he fell ill with an unknown malady. Cheyne considered this malady to be the result of over-taxed nerves. Eventually she dies in Paris from an unknown malady which is almost self-imposed. As of 2019, a successful vaccine to counter the malady did not exist. Christopher Nolan's 2000 brain-twister "Memento" starred Guy Pearce as a man with a similar malady. The younger Amelia died the following year after a brief malady. Harry Lehr died on January 3, 1929 of a brain malady in Baltimore.