Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 1/Girl Afflicted With Strange Malady

3593174Weird Tales, Volume 2, Issue 1 — Girl Afflicted With Strange Malady1923

Girl Afflicted With Strange Malady

A STRANGE case of insanity is that of a prominent young woman of Danville, Illinois, who has been sent to the State Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee. The girl was obsessed with he idea that her health was failing and could be restored only by tobacco. She therefore bought large quantities of smoking and chewing tobacco, which she used in an effort to "become large and strong."

This work was published before January 1, 1929 and is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 95 years or less since publication.

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