I suspect you chose the metaphor of unicorns because I've used it before myself. I certainly acknowledge that simply because anxiety disorder only came out as a diagnosis in the 1860s doesn't mean that telegraph lines had to be the cause. Nevertheless, it certainly suggests that it may have been the primary cause, or at least one of the causes.
Agreed, but it's certainly -possible- that it wasn't described in the medical literature because it didn't exist in the past.
As I already stated, we agree that simply because something was described in the medical literature in the past doesn't mean that it must therefore be a new condition. But then, that could be said for any disease, including Covid. What people should be on the lookout for, then, is not the label of a disease or condition, but whether such symptoms had been seen in the past. I fully acknowledge that some symptoms of Covid do appear to be novel. A New York doctor named Cameron Kyle-Sidell was actually the one who persuaded me of this. An article on his discovery that what was happening with Covid patients was being treated in a harmful fashion due to inexperience with this new condition is here:
https://www.newswars.com/bombshell-...ondition-of-oxygen-deprivation-not-pneumonia/
So we can agree that something new appeared to be on the scene. That doesn't mean that they were right as to its cause, however. As some have pointed out, something that appeared on the scene at around the same time as Covid were 5G installations, and I've found that some of the symptoms associated with Covid are also symptoms that can be generated by 5G. I believe at this point if not from the start that there may be other causes of what is labelled as Covid, but 5G stands out as something that started at around the same time.
He doesn't mention hysteria often, but he does bring it up in relation to neuresthenia, which I found interesting. Quoting:
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A number of historians of medicine who have not dug very deep have asserted that neurasthenia was not a new disease, that nothing had changed, and that late nineteenth and early twentieth century high society was really suffering from some sort of mass hysteria.8
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Source:
Firstenberg, Arthur. The Invisible Rainbow (p. 54). Chelsea Green Publishing. Kindle Edition.
As to neuresthenia:
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As far as the new disease that he described in 1869, Beard did not guess its cause. He simply thought it was a disease of modern civilization, caused by stress, that was previously uncommon. The name he gave it, “neurasthenia,” just means “weak nerves.” Although some of its symptoms resembled other diseases, neurasthenia seemed to attack at random and for no reason and no one was expected to die from it. Beard certainly didn’t connect the disease with electricity, which was actually his preferred treatment for neurasthenia—when the patient could tolerate it. When he died in 1883, the cause of neurasthenia, to everyone’s frustration, had still not been identified. But in a large portion of the world where the term “neurasthenia” is still in everyday use among doctors—and the term is used in most of the world outside of the United States—electricity is recognized today as one of its causes. And the electrification of the world was undoubtedly responsible for its appearance out of nowhere during the 1860s, to become a pandemic during the following decades.
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Source:
Firstenberg, Arthur. The Invisible Rainbow (pp. 51-52). Chelsea Green Publishing. Kindle Edition.
. As you may have seen by now, I've now moved beyond simply linking articles and have started to quote material therein.
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