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Oto osobliwy dowód szaleństwa zwanego krystalizacją, zawarty w Pamiętnikach mistress Hutchinson:

„...He told to Mr. Hutchinson a very true story of a gentleman who not long before had come for some time to lodge in Richmond, and found all the people he came in company with, bewailing the death of a gentlewoman that had lived there. Hearing her so much deplored he made inquiry after her, and grew so in love with the description, that no other discourse could at first please him, nor could he at last endure any other; he grew desperately melancholy, and would go to a mount where the print of her foot was cut, and lie there pining and kissing of it all the day long, till at length death in some months’ space concluded his languishment. This story was very true1”.

(T. I, s. 83).