Singular Hallucination
Francis Ange, a wealthy planter from Louisiana, says the Cincinnati Commercial arrived in that city yesterday, en route for Europe, where his friends are taking him for the purpose, if possible, of dispelling a singular hallucination, or species of insanity, with which he is afflicted. Two years ago he took it into his head that his pedal extremities were paralyzed, and although assured by eminent medical practioners that his understandings are as form and strong as they ever were, he insists upon being carried about like a child, and not even an alarm of fire in his residence could induce him to hazard a perpendicular position. It is said that he is perfectly sane on all other matters.
~ Bedford Inquirer, 11-Dec-1857, Page 2, Column 4
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