First cases of Wasting Fall recorded

Discovery, Scientific

The first four cases of what became known as Wasting Fall were identified in Provence, France.

Four angels were admitted to the national hospital in Provence complaining of severe headaches and dizziness which kept them from being able to fly. Numerous tests were done, but no cause and no cure could be discovered. All four angels died within two years of their diagnosis and the doctors involved called it "maladie décharné," literally "wasting sickness" in reference to the patients' emaciated, dehydrated and gaunt appearances by the time of their death.