(c) 2004 by ALBERT DONNAY
First Described in 1733 by Dr. George Cheyne
as the English Malady (EM), aka ‘The Vapours’
u“To enumerate all the almost infinite Symptoms, Degrees and Kinds of Vapours is impossible, and perhaps very little to the Purpose.”
u“In general … the symptoms are many, various, changeable, shifting from one Place to another, and imitating the Symptoms of almost every other Distemper described.”
u“Those who suffer … are all of weak Nerves, have a great degree of sensibility; are quick Thinkers, feel Pleasure or Pain the most readily,
and are of most lively imagination.”
u“Not withstanding all this, the Disease is as much a bodily Distemper as the Small-Pox or a Fever.”
uWorst in winter & cities.  Blamed on bad air, bad diet & bad habits.
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