The Diary—Old Hoax or New?

[Herlock Sholmes]

I must be mad, mentally deficient, and have more than just loss of short-term memory.

Maybe I have a disease that causes "severe memory impairment, particularly problems forming new memories (anterograde amnesia) and recalling past events (retrograde amnesia)."

Korsakoff!!! Oh no!

Could be, eh? Some diagnoses go undiagnosed, don't they.

No? Then I must not have it than because I haven't been diagnosed. But that could be my disease talking. Help me! Help me!

Just so that you are aware, Lombro. The claim made on 10th March 2025 in #482 of the "google ngrams" thread was that: "Barrett was diagnosed with the syndrome." If you're saying that Korsakoff Syndrome was undiagnosed in Mike Barrett, that directly contradicts what we were told.

[Lombro2]

Undiagnosed at the time that you specified for reasons unknown unless it's to make us appear to have Korsakoff syndrome and are great confabulators.

Bad lawyers, yes. Great Korsakoff Confabulators with Baron Munchhausen, no.