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Prairie madness is not a clinical condition; rather, it is a pervasive subject in writings of fiction and non-fiction from the period to describe a fairly common phenomenon. It was described by Eugene Virgil Smalley in 1893: "an alarming amount of insanity occurs in the new Prairie States among farmers and their wives."
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A fact from Prairie madness appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 April 2013 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that settlers of the American frontier in the 19th century sometimes fell victim to prairie madness, in which social isolation and other hardships of life on the prairie caused them to develop mental illness?
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Prairie madness; Menerik (sometimes meryachenie [Note 1]) – a condition similar to piblokto found in Siberia among Yakuts, Yukagirs, and Evenks. Sidorov and Davydov draw a distinction between piblokto-like menerik and latah-like meryachenie. [18] Others use meryachenie as an umbrella term for both piblokto-like and latah-like states.
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