> “In his Dissertatio medica de nostalgia of 1688, Johannes Hofer elevated homesickness to a medical condition worthy of a physician’s attention. He replaced Heimweh, the everyday German word for homesickness, with a scientific-sounding neologism stitched together from the Greek nostos (home, return) and algos (pain).” --- **Source: ** Hyde, Lewis. _A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past_, 2019.