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- References: <1992Nov03.042152.17339@src4src.linet.org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:38:27 GMT
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- Once, at the request of two college professors, Pillsbury took a
- memeory test which consisted of repeating, as accurately as he could,
- a list of twenty-eight words and phrases which were read to him.
- Here, in its strange entirety, is the list: "Antiphlogistian,
- periosteum, takediastase, Plasmon, ambrosia, Threlkeld, streptococcus,
- staphylococcus, miscrococcus, Mississippi, Freiheit, Philadelphia,
- Cincinnati, athletics, no Salamagundi, Oomisillecottsi, Bangmamvate,
- Schelechter's Nek, Manzinyama, theosophy, catechism, Madjesoomalops."
- Pillsbury repeated it without error and without hesitation. Then he
- recited it backward. He repeated it again the next day, one way only.
- He died, insane, in Frankfort, Pennsylvania, in 1906.
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