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When the affliction was inside the body and severe, it was called colic. There were kidney and liver colic and the colic known as ''miserere<ref>''This name reflected its fulminating nature; in fact, Miserere (Have mercy) is the first word of Psalm 50 which was sang during the burial, i.e., as the corpse was carried into to the church.''</ref>, ''which included several types of stomach afflictions, all of which were serious and included bowel obstruction.

When a contagious disease turned into an epidemic in a specific location or region, its impact on the social life was extraordinary. Some of those epidemics that occurred eighty or hundred years ago still live on in local residents’ memory. Two of them are particularly remembered by the people surveyed: the cholera epidemic in == and the 1918 flu epidemic. ==