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What ailment, which Marcel Proust suffered from beginning at the age of 9, largely caused his germophobia? The ailment necessitated, among other things, Proust's perceived need for his assistant to disinfect his letters with formaldehyde for two hours. At the time, physicians considered the illness to be a type of hysteria.
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