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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

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This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease - a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that 'nervousness' was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth-century medical theory.

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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain, Heather R. Beatty

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2016
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Title
Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
Language
English
Publisher
Routledge
Released
2016
Format
Paperback
Pages
256
ISBN10
113866460x
ISBN13
9781138664609
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This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease - a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that 'nervousness' was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth-century medical theory.