megrums

Updated: August 3, 2026

Many and manifold are the remedies to "chear the heart," to "drive melancholy," to "cure one pensive," "for the megrums," "for a grief;" and without doubt the lonely colonists often needed them. We know, too, that "things ill for the heart were beans, pease, sadness, onions, anger, evil tidings, and loss of friends," a very arbitrary and unjust classification.

Alice Morse Earle - Customs and Fashions in Old New England