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Lizard lady of Akron stumped doctors
Young woman's death in 1910 was strange news indeed, tough to stomach
By Mark J. Price
Beacon Journal staff writer
The strange case of Lovie Herman puzzled doctors for more than a decade.
Many physicians examined the Akron native during her short, troubled life, but each diagnosis seemed to conflict with the previous one, and the treatments did little to comfort her.