A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions, vulgarly call'd the hypo in men and vapours in women; in which the symptoms, causes, and cure of those diseases are set forth after a method entirely new. The whole interspers'd with instructive discourses on the real art of physick it self; and entertaining remarks on the modern practice of physicians and apothecaries ... In three dialogues / By B. de Mandeville.
- Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733
- Date:
- 1711
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions, vulgarly call'd the hypo in men and vapours in women; in which the symptoms, causes, and cure of those diseases are set forth after a method entirely new. The whole interspers'd with instructive discourses on the real art of physick it self; and entertaining remarks on the modern practice of physicians and apothecaries ... In three dialogues / By B. de Mandeville. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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