In the 1970's there was a woman 'allergic to the 20th century'. With her it was the same story but her allergies were to do with credible things like polycyclic

In the 1970's there was a woman 'allergic to the 20th century'. With her it was the same story but her allergies were to do with credible things like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19810223&id=0PpLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QfkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2674,1618261&hl=en https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19810223&id=... This woman was a regular feature in the news and, if she was alive today, she almost certainly would be allergic to bluetooth/wifi etc. Reading between the lines of her story it seems she had a doctor who was seeing her as 'allergic to the 20th century' when really she was suffering from just the normal things that affect humans from time to time, e.g. depression. So rather than being depressed everything could be blamed on 'the 20th century'. There must be others from earlier times that have decided to 'play the dead canary' to devote their lives to distilling our fears of the new into some terrifying allergy condition of a syndrome, providing endless story for journalists to cover.