[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]

We're thinking along the same lines, although I approached it from a historical point of view and you from a practical.

I wouldn't trust a 17th century medico to describe anything accurately from a modern standpoint (you should read some of their stuff describing diseases that we know are still extant - like TB. Some of it is very off the wall.)

[bd476]

Tammy8 wrote: "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."

Tammy it is entirely possible that the nurse practitioner

• Forged the excerpt from the History of Medical Annals and then posted it online. It's also possible that the nurse practitioner is
  
  
• Impersonating Randy S. Wymore, Ph.D. assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, currently doing research on Morgellons disease. It's also possible that the nurse practitioner
  
  
• Wrote this today for the Times Online UK, or bribed someone at the Times Online UK to write it. It's also possible that the nurse practitioner
  
  
• Paid off the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology to publish the abstract on Morgellons disease. It's also possible that the nurse practitioner
  
  
• Bribed the National Institute of Health /Entrez Pub Med to further a hoax.

All is possible, Tammy, and most of the possibilities are dependent upon your willingness to look for a conspiracy around every corner.