Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — A Curious New Disease. [ARTICLE]

A Curious New Disease.

The medical faculty in Brooklyn have discovered a new form of nervous disease, to which they have affixed a polysyllabic name, and which they attribute to the abuse of the Bridge habit. Its most marked symptoms are great irritability and severe depression, with an apparently irresitable inclination to do violence to all with whom the patient comes in contact. No remedial agent has yet been discovered for this disease, but a straitjacket is recommended as the best form of restraint in particularly bad cases. When the disease manifests itself in a mild form, strict solitude and a milk diet have beeu found to produce salutary results.—New York Advertiser.