Word: hartz
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...English scholar during a holiday excursion in the Hartz Mountains subjected himself one day to a severe physical strain which produced a singular mental disturbance. He was on his feet from morning till night, and in the course of the day's wanderings made several arduous ascents, taking no rest and neither eating nor sleeping. At night when he reached a place where he could supply his needs he was unable, to his great astonishment, to recollect a single word of the German language, although he ordinarily spoke it with fluency. His memory did not fail him in any other...