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Take Samuel Cartwright, for instance, who in 1851 coined two ingenious new diagnoses to be applied to slaves: drapetomania , or running away (recommended treatment: whipping), and dysaesthesia aethiopis , whose symptoms were sloth and a tendency to break things (recommended treatment: whipping).