Voici une singulière preuve de la folie nommée cristallisation, que l'on
trouve dans les Mémoires de mistriss Hutchinson:
... «He told to M. Hutchinson a very true story of a gentleman who not
long before had come for some time to lodge in Richmond, and found all
the people he came in company with, bewailing the death of a gentlewoman
that had lived there. Hearing her so much deplored he made inquiry after
her, and grew so in love with the description, that no other discourse
could at first please him, nor could he at last endure any other; he
grew desperately melancholy, and would go to a mount where the print of
her foot was cut, and lie there pining and kissing of it all the day
long, till at length death in some months space concluded his
languishment. This story was very true.» (Tome I, page 83.)