SYMPTOMS:

• Continual complaint as to need for names, dates and places.
• Patient has a blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children.
• Has no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records at libraries and courthouses.
• Has a compulsion to write letters.
• Swears at mailman when he doesn't leave mail.
• Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins, and remote desolate country areas.
• Makes secret night calls and hides phone bills from spouse.
• Mumbles to self. Has strange, faraway look in eyes.

REMARKS:  The unusual nature of this disease is that the sicker the patient gets, the more he or she enjoys it.