In this thread, Qadgop the Mercotan says that there’s a rare disease called “carbuncular trollopsy.”
Well, I googled “carbuncular trollopsy” and came up with nothing. So did another poster to that thread. (I think it was neuroman, but I don’t really remember. And I’m feeling too lazy right now to look it up.) So what is this disease?
When I googled “carbuncular trollopsy,” Google thought that maybe I’d misspelled one of the words in my search. Said search engine suggested “carbuncular trollop.” I have no idea what a “carbuncular trollop” is (Google seemed equally ignorant on this topic), but it sounds like a great insult, one especially applicable to women. Perhaps it’s an archaic phrase. Something from Shakespeare, perhaps. I can see the full quote being from one of the lesser-known folios: “Avaunt thee, thou twickwaddle! Thou cutsputum! Thou carbuncular trollop!”
But enough of this. So, what’s carbuncular trollopsy?
“Carbuncle” and “trollop”? Right–carbuncles are sores or small areas of inflammation, IIRC. And “trollop” is yet another term for a woman who sleeps around. So would “carbuncular trollopsy” be a disease that makes one a sore-covered slut?
Nah. Carbuncle is a summoning spell in some of the earlier Final Fantasy games. So carbuncle trollopsy is a carbuncle that comes to the aid of humans, or, more generally, someone who has no offensive capabilites but only casts Reflect on the entire party.
Eosinophilic fasciitis is a real entity, one that I saw exactly once in a patient.
Carbuncular Trollopsy is a “tongue in cheek” diagnosis, not unlike microdeckia or the Q sign. Just a leftover term from my med school days. It described people who had disseminated gonorrhea, which often presented with abscesses and infected joints. I saw it a few times in the commercial sex worker patients we had in east Baltimore, back in the 80’s.
No apology necessary. I was vague, imprecise, and didn’t flag my ‘jest’ with a smilie or anything. I never thought people would try to track the term down!!
