![]() ![]() It's a test case for human affinity in the face of manifest but indefinable suffering. To Leslie Jamison – whose essay collection includes pieces on extreme running, gangland tours and the history of saccharin, but is at its disconcerted best when describing bodily predicaments – the "disease" was and remains something more. Morgellons was a template instance of medical anxiety in the internet age. ![]() To journalists too: before long it seemed every enterprising US feature writer was poring itchily over online accounts of symptoms and the struggle for acceptance. Morgellons disease – the name derived from a passing reference by the 17th-century physician Sir Thomas Browne – appeared to the professional gaze an impure emanation of Google-borne hypochondria. ![]() A little over a decade ago a number of Americans began to report a novel and alarming disorder: they itched like the damned, convinced that tiny threads or fibres were poking from their skin, or that they were infested with minuscule creeping things. ![]()
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