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The worst of madmen is a saint<\/em> run mad.<\/p>\n\n
We perceive more complaints of the effects of the camp-meetings<\/em> instituted by Lorenzo Dow<\/em>, and continued by less fanatical and more sober and consistent preachers. It is asserted in some prints, that these assemblies have originated a disorder called the Jerks<\/em>, being a convulsive and involuntary twitching and jerking of different parts of the body, taken at these meetings, and continued in other places, and communicated (supposed by sympathy and horror) to strangers. How prone are mankind to run into excess, and verge from one extreme to another.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.11″ \/][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jerkshistory\/files\/2019\/01\/Bee1804-01.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” _builder_version=”3.11″ \/][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.11″ \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.11″]<\/p>\n
Source<\/h3>\n
The Bee<\/em> [Hudson, N.Y.], November 6, 1804, [3].<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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