Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

We've all been there.

Those days when we wake up too early and barely function on a few hours of sleep, we pump

ourselves full of coffee, but it's never enough and so we shamble through the workday,

like zombies.

It's unknown whether French neurologist Jules Cotard was a morning person or not, but

he certainly understood what it was like to feel like the walking dead.

He observed it, firsthand.

Cotard, born in France in 1840, started his medical career at the Pétier-Sulpitrier

University Hospital where he interned.

Later on as a full-fledged doctor, he took a strong interest in those who suffered

from cerebral vascular accidents, otherwise known as strokes.

He wanted to know more about the effects on the brain, so he would often perform autopsies

on those who had died because of them.

But in 1882, a woman walked into his office with something new, something different, something

strange.

She was only ever known as Madame Wazelle X, and on that day she rattled off a list of

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