In 1784, a Royal Commission headed by Benjamin Franklin and Antoine Lavoisier designed a series of ingenious experiments to debunk France's greatest medical rogue, Anton Mesmer, and his bizarre healing of illnesses based on his bogus theory of animal magnetism.
Thinking back to my graduate school days I recall the bizarre range of illnesses that my female colleagues and I suffered from: strange rashes, neck and back problems, rheumatoid arthritis, breast infections, asthma, lupus... and that's just skimming my memory's surface.
"Wonderland" reruns the most bizarre, stereotypical images of mental illness that television programmers count on to improve drama and ratings.
When Dad first became really confused, there were some things that remained resistant to his illness for a bizarre length of time.
If he were white and hadn't mentioned ISIS, there might be a domestic or family-related motive, or mental illness, or a bizarre, mysterious lack of motive.
North Korea claimed, to disbelief in Japan, that she had hanged herself in 1994 while being treated in hospital for depression; that another seven had died of illness or in bizarre accidents; and that four others had never entered the country.
That was the start of his career as an expert in Munchausen syndrome by proxy – now rebranded as fabricated or induced illness (FII) – the bizarre form of child abuse in which parents or carers make their children ill or invent symptoms of illness, often to gain attention.
Like a more malignant version of the investigator whose inquiries frame the story of "Citizen Kane," Dantine has sought out Disney's family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances, from Salvador Dalí to Peter Ustinov, reconstructing a bizarre narrative of Disney's illness and death.
North Korea said four alleged abductees had not entered the country and that a further eight had died of illnesses or in bizarre accidents.
