Very Contagious to Adults

SYMPTOMS: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates, kinships, and places. Patient has blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has no taste for work of any kind except feverishly looking through records at libraries and courthouses. Has compulsion to write letters. Swears at mailman when he doesn't leave mail. Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins, and remote desolate country areas. Makes secret night calls. Hides phone bills from spouse. Mumbles to self. Has strange faraway look in eye. NO KNOWN CURE.

TREATMENT: Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogy magazines, and be given a quiet corner in the house where he/she can be alone.

REMARKS: The usual nature of this disease is the sicker the patient gets, the more he enjoys it.