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What Caused Nastalgia?
Johannes haffer's dissertation gave a name to this unnamed disease. Hoffer wrote that the sick people who have nastalgia, when they are sent forth to foreign lands with alien customs, do not know how to accustom themselves to the manners of living. And without treatment, so the stories go, many of these mercenaries died from nastalgia. Other doctors argued it was caused by changes in atmospheric pressure, while others claimed it was cause by cow bells. Cow bells were apparently clanging incessantly throughout the swiss countryside and were thought to cause ear drum damage.