Thank you for the responses Obviously I made a couple of mistakes The version immediately before yours did have some gaps and problems that I overlooked I guess the sentences The social implication of viewing ageing as a disease could be profound though this classical is not yet widespread and Lepers were a group of afflicted individuals who historically shunned and the term leper still evokes social sigma Fear of disease can still be a widespread social phenomena Yet not all disease evoke extreme social stigma made me think you were not a native english speaker because of the multitude of simple number and agreement errors as well as the awkward structure and unusual word use I was trying to get rid of the false distinction between disease and syndrome and linkage of symptom to syndrome A syndrome is simply a combination of problems not just symptoms in the accurate sense of subjective complaints often observed together and presumably related Whether a condition is called Smith disease or Smith syndrome is more a matter of historical contingency than any meaningful denotative distinction It looked like you were reasserting that and I was trying to get rid of it I put it back the way you left it as I don t feel up to a rewrite Sorry for any offense