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whole progress of this strange epidemic in 
Im^rina, that a certain amount of imposture 
was practised. But the eminent physician who 
supplied the facts upon which these references 
are based, and who had to deal practically with 
the sufferers from the mania, maintains that 
there could be no question as to the serious 
reality of the whole phenomenon. 
