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The Dutch botanist and chemist, Herman Boerhaave, was one of the first scientists to place the roots of madness inside of the body. Instead of foreign agents entering the mind of the insane thanks to irate deities, Boerhaave believed the symptoms of madness were due to mistaken beliefs. When you think reality should be one way and it turns out not to be…