(DOWNLOAD) "Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain" by Heather R Beatty # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Author : Heather R Beatty
- Release Date : January 06, 2015
- Genre: History,Books,Professional & Technical,Medical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4427 KB
Description
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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