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Hypochondriasis: A Practical Treatise (1766)

Hypochondriasis: A Practical Treatise (1766)

Hill, John

Paperback

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 1976244331
ISBN13: 9781976244339
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 9 2017
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Nicholas Robinson, A New System of the Spleen, Vapours, and Hypochondriack Melancholy (London, 1729) Treatises on hypochondriasis-the seventeenth-century medical term for a wide range of nervous diseases-were old when Sir John Hill, the eccentric English scientist, physician, apothecary, and hack writer, published his Hypochondriasis in 1766. For at least a century and a half medical writers as well as lay authors had been writing literature of all types (treatises, pamphlets, poems, sermons, epigrams) on this most fashionable of English maladies under the variant names of melancholy, the spleen, black melancholy, hysteria, nervous debility, the hyp. Despite the plethora of materia scripta on the subject it makes sense to reprint Hill's Hypochondriasis, because it is indeed a practical treatise and because it offers the modern student of neoclassical literature a clear summary of the best thoughts that had been put forth on the subject, as well as an explanation of the causes, symptoms, and cures of this commonplace malady. No reader of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature needs to be reminded of the interest of writers of the period in the condition-disease is too confining a term-hypochondriasis. Their concern is apparent in both the poetry and prose of two centuries.

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