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Excerpts from the Journal of Richard Green Waterhouse (June–December 1804)
“A strange and unknown Nervous Affection, or Disease, made its appearance, in a variety of forms, in different parts of the Counties of Knox and Blount…. [It] was termed; ‘the Jerks.'”