The pathological desire to leave the house and wander called penchant

Most of us have from time to time likes to change the situation. But there are also those who, once started, is no longer able to return to a sedentary lifestyle. Epidemic or uncontrolled penchant desire to change places swept France's 1886-1909.

The man who served as a model for the European penchant for the medical establishment, was gas-fitter from Bordeaux named Jean-Albert Dada. In 1886, after he returned from his truly epic journey, he was taken to the hospital of St. Andre. The man was, of course, emaciated to the extreme, but it's not so bad - he was in a daze, he could not remember where he was and what was done.

Doctors managed to recreate the crumbs of its history and make a medical journal called "Crazy traveler". It turns out that a passionate desire to travel came from Dada in 1881, when he was somewhere in the south of Belgium left the French army and moved first to Prague, then to Berlin, then through eastern Prussia reached Moscow. Dada was arrested in Moscow (just happened to the murder of Alexander II) and expelled to Turkey. In Constantinople he was received at the French consulate and sent to Vienna, where he again found work gasman.

Shortly after his story became known to the general public, from Dada appeared followers, in any case, we know more about a few cases, a penchant for France around this time. The incidence of the disease was not so much, but talk about this phenomenon in the medical community were so many that it is drawn to this epidemic. They gradually subsided by about 1909.

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