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From: "Rob Campbell" <>
Subject: [ENG-LIV] Strange if true
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:36:50 +0100


The Armagh Guardian
Armagh, County Armagh
May 6,1845
STRANGE IF TRUE.-In the notice to correspondents pub-
lished in the London Medical Times of the 26th ult., the follow-
ing strange statement appears:--
"Dr. Davis, of Manorhamilton [Co Leitrim], sends us an
authenticated statemet [sic], that in the neighbourhood of
Londonderry, several ladies have gone to bed quite well, and
in the morning have been found in a complete state of insanity.
More than six cases have occurred in a rural district within a
circle of twenty miles. The mania is uncontrollably violent,
and characterized by an extreme anxiety for the nudity of
nature.-Our correspondent speaks of the visitation as an
epidemic, like some of those that are recorded as taking place
in the sixteenth and seventeenth century in Germany and
France."
We have not heard of this singular malady, and therefore do
not believe in its existence. If it should prove to be a slanderous
imputation against our fair friends, we would recommend that
the author of it should be tried by a jury of matrons, and, on
conviction, be sentenced to wear, for the residue of his natural
life, those garments of which he alleges the ladies of our
neighbourhood are so desirous to divest themselves.-Derry
Sentinel.

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