[bd476]

Tammy8 wrote: "According to this article she moved from Texas to CA. Really makes you wonder though- does this mystery ailment follow her around?"

Just about anything is possible, I suppose, but are you also willing to conclude that Morgellons disease followed her via time travel to Europe in the 1600s?

[Tammy8]

The only proof we have from that time is a description, there is no way to know if it is the same thing. I have read descriptions of illnesses in a PDR and yet many times the illness isn't that at all, just something that sounds the same. I am not a Dr and don't even pretend to know anything about this one way or another. I just think it is odd that this lady is linked to it in 2 states now and she is not a Dr either- she is a nurse practitioner. It may be a real ailment that is being blown off by Drs, but it could also be that this lady is looking to promote this for whatever reason.

[AnAmericanMother]

Unfortunately, the idea that the condition now called "Morgellons disease" existed in the 1600s is unproveable. The observations (other than "harsh hairs on their backs") are completely different, since epileptic seizures and observable parasites - which are pictured in the article - are involved.

Moreover, trying to do diagnostics from the observations of a 17th century Englishman with "interests in medicine" is virtually impossible. (It's a hobby of some doctors with an interest in history, but it's always conjectural, like the speculations that Henry VIII had syphilis and transmitted it to his children.)

The modern syndrome, whatever it is, was simply named after the 1600s disease. Many people assume (and I imagine were intended to assume) that it's the same disease. You're one of them.