During the last one hundred years scientists and doctors have been studying why some people can not stay still and pay attention. The first documented mention in a Medical text of was in 1904 in the British journal Lancet. The Story of Fidgety Philip "Let me see if Philip can Be a little gentleman; Let me see if he is able To sit still for once at the table." Thus Papa bade Phil behave; And Mama looked very grave. But Fidgety Phil, He won't sit still; He wiggles, And giggles, And then, I declare, Swings backwards and forwards, And tilts u ....