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