Here are some other “ironic” coincidences that Alanis missed out on that would have made for a fabulous song sung in rounds.
- Hans Asperger died of Alzheimer’s disease.
- Alois Alzheimer frequently shouted that he had Tourette’s syndrome ya fuckin’ scabby witch.
- George de las Tourette’s lymph nodes were prudish and came down with Hodgkin’s lymphoma (not the good kind).
- Thomas Hodgkin was a colleague of Thomas Addison and caught Addison’s disease from him.
- Thomas Addison had a shaky grasp of reality after coming down with Parkinson’s disease.
- James Parkinson got a shitty deal after coming down with Crohn’s disease.
- Burrill Crohn was Jewish. In a fantastic twist of fate, he did not have Tay-Sachs disease, but instead went full-spectrum with Asperger’s.
- Rinse and repeat.