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“Men with Queer Nerves”: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
Ross Bullen writes for The Public Domain Review about the French-Canadian lumberjacks around Maine's Moosehead Lake who, at the slightest stimulus, would jump, strike out or mimic languages they could not speak, and about neurologist George M. Beard, who first wrote about them in an 1878 essay and linked their behavior to religious frenzy and neurasthenia.
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