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"nostalgia, pt 2"
Nostalgia is derived from the Greek words "nostos", meaning "homecoming", and "algos", meaning "ache". It literally translates to "the ache associated with coming home". The term was first coined by a Dutch medical student named Johannes Homer in 1688 to characterize the anxieties of Swiss mercenaries serving abroad. Homer wrote in his dissertation that, due to brain damage caused by the clanging of cowbells during their childhoods in Switzerland, Swiss mercenaries were more prone to exhibit high fevers, stomach pain, indigestion, fainting, and death--all symptoms of the newly discovered medical affliction, "nostalgia".
Nostalgia was recognized by U.S. armed forces as a medical condition until the end of World War II.
During the Romantic period at the beginning of the 19th century, the literary world positioned the German concept of "wanderlust" as the antithises of nostalgia. "Wanderlust" is derived from the German words "wandern", meaning "to hike", and "lust", meaning "desire".
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