Florence hospital staff are used to tourists collapsing from beauty
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76YZ6)
Staff at Florence's Santa Maria Nuova hospital are accustomed to tourists arriving with dizzy spells and disorientation after viewing Michelangelo's David or the Botticellis in the Uffizi. The condition has a name: Stendhal syndrome, a psychosomatic reaction to great art that can include rapid heartbeat, confusion, hallucinations, and fainting. - Read the rest
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