Hector the ashen lance of Ajax smote / With his broad faulchion, at the nether end, / And lopp’d it sheer.

At Easter it was even sent into other dioceses, bishops being in the habit of sending the consecrated host to each other as a mark of intercommunion, of brotherhood and amity. To the sacred host, on these occasions, the name of eulogia was given, and thus until the fifth century the word eulogia appears to have been synonymous with eucharistia, and used interchangeably with it to designate the sacrament of the altar, the chalice and bread of benediction spoken of by St. Paul.

Julien Pain, head of the Internet desk at Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based group which tracks censorship around the world, put it more bluntly. “It is by far the worst Internet black hole,” he said.

[Causes of death recorded in London included] tympany (drumlike gas-caused abdominal swelling), bleach or scald (skin diseases), an evil complexion of humours by eating of rawe fruite, jawfallen (lockjaw), chincowgh (whooping cough), and strangullion (urinary retention). but contrast Julia Bamford, Silvia Cavalieri, Giuliana Diani, Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse (2016), page 206, which says popular names used to refer to common or rare diseases were rather obscure: rising of the lights (croup), jawfaln (depression) and King's evil (scrofula, commonly believed to be cured by the touch of the king).