Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1881 — A Very Uncommon Mania. [ARTICLE]

A Very Uncommon Mania.

Burton, the traveler, tells us that a melancholy Duke of Muscovy fell ill if he but looked upon a woman, and that another anchorite was seized with a cold palsy under similar circumstances. Here is a case of a lady having an aversion to the opposite sex ; it appeared in the obituary of a newspaper some fifty years ago: “Lately, at Gray’s Almshouses, Taunton, aged 82, Hannah Murton, a maiden lady. She vowed several years ago that no he-fellow should ever touch her, living or- dead. In pursuance of this resolution, about ten jwu

since she purchased a coffin, in which, whenever the felt serious illness, she immediately deposited herself, thus securing the gratification of her peculiar sensibility." There are many similar cases to this lady’s on record, though they are manifested in a more imperfect way.— Chambers’ Journal.