Her keen vision pierced through his ruse, as it did when he brought the doctor who had diagnosticated her case as organic disease of the heart, and, after making him go over the facts of it again with her, made him declare it merely functional.
"Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells"
William Dean Howells
It was not until long afterward that many of its characteristics, which had been interpreted as supernatural signs, were known and understood, and correctly diagnosticated as outward evidence of physical and nervous exhaustion.
"The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut"
M. Louise Greene, Ph. D.