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has gloss | eng: In psychiatry, dysaethesia aethiopica was an alleged mental illness described by American physician Samuel A. Cartwright in 1851, which proposed a theory for the cause of laziness among slaves. Today, dysaethesia aethiopica is considered an example of pseudoscience, and part of the edifice of scientific racism. |
lexicalization | eng: Dysaethesia aethiopica |
instance of | c/Obsolete medical terms |
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