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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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The term was sometimes used to describe any uninhabited or treeless land, whether or not it was arid, and sometimes to refer to hot and arid lands, evoking images of sandy wastelands. European colonists believed that treeless lands were not good for agriculture , thus the term desert also had the connotation of "unfit for farming."
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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