“The illness with which he'd been smitten
should have been analysed when caught,
something like spleen, that scourge of Britain,
or Russia's chondria, for short.”

— Aleksandr Pushkin , book Eugene Onegin

Source: Eugene Onegin (1823), Ch. 1, st. 38.

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“The illness with which he'd been smitten
should have been analysed when caught,
something like spleen, that scourge of Britain,
or Russia's chondria, for short.”