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Further investigation revealed that the patient had been receiving copies of a medical dictionary, issued in installments, and so developed hysterical symptoms of the disease described in that month's reading.

Writing in 1902, a Dr. Séverin Icard cited the case of a young woman who regularly came to his office with a bewildering variety of symptoms. Finally, Dr. Icard noticed that the diseases there symptoms indicated were occurring in alphabetical order.

"... was known to have a taste in kinky sex"

(Early criminal/detective novels) asked readers to search beneath the surface to find the nature of things —
A common theme of modernism in both art and science.

"They've bored me stiff with this 'famous smile!'... You do not know women or you do not know them well. If I smile with an 'enigmatic' air it was certainly not for the ridiculous reasons attributed to me by the gentlemen of the literature... this smile marked my lassitude, my scorn for all the skunks who paraded endlessly before me, and my infinite desire to carry out my abduction." — Mona Lisa