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December 21, 2017 05:22 am PST
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In the 1870s, a French laborer found himself making strange, compulsive journeys all over Europe
In the 1870s, French gas fitter Albert Dadas started making strange, compulsive trips to distant towns, with no planning or awareness of what he was doing. His bizarre affliction set off a 20-year epidemic of "mad travelers" in Europe, which evaporated as mysteriously as it had begun. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll consider the parable of pathological tourism and its meaning for psychiatry.
We'll also contemplate the importance of sick chickens and puzzle over a farmyard contraption.
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