Medicine: False Laugher

Eighteen-year-old Teresa Hawkins was overjoyed when the business school of Fairmont, W. Va. gave her a 100% grade in shorthand fortnight ago. To celebrate, she and two school chums went to the cinema. There Teresa, for no funny reason on the screen, started to laugh. Her friends, unable to stop her, took her home. Her father, unable to stop her, drove her to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The doctors, unable to stop her, sent her to West Virginia's State Hospital at Weston, where last week she lay shaking every 30 minutes with newsmaking...

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