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Hypochondria

Gillespie, R. D. 1897-1945.

Date: 1929

Hypochondria : woeful imaginings

Date: 1988

Dissertatio inauguralis medica de hypochondria ...

Eckert, Antonius.

Date: 1841

Phantom illness : recognizing, understanding, and overcoming hypochondria

Date: 1996

On hypochondria : interpreting romantic health and illness

Grinnell, George C.

Date: 2005

A condition of doubt : the meanings of hypochondria

Belling, Catherine Francis.

Date: [2012], ©2012

The age of hypochondria : interpreting Romantic health and illness

Grinnell, George C.

Date: 2010

The hyp, a burlesque poem in five canto's. Including the adventures of Sir Valetude Whim, And his Retinue. With some Prefatory Reflections upon Discontent, Natural, and Political; humbly Inscrib'd, for their Consolation, to some certain great Men who are at present out of Place. Crede quod habes & habes-

Date: M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]

A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria"), being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.

Dunthorne, James, active 1780-1792.

Date: 1 March 1788

A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria") being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.

Dunthorne, James, active 1780-1792.

Date: 1 March 1788

Medicina gymnastica: or, every man his own physician, or, a treatise concerning the power of exercise, with respect to the animal oeconomy and the great necessity of it in the cure of several distempers. Viz, the consumption, dropsy, hypochondria, the itch, and other cutaneous irruptions

Fuller, Francis, 1670-1706.

Date: 1740

Medicina gymnastica: or, every man his own physician. A treatise concerning the power of exercise with respect to the animal oeconomy: and the great necessity of it in the cure of several distempers. Viz, the Consumption, Dropsy, Hypochondria, the Itch, and other Cutaneous Irruptions. By Francis Fuller, M.A.

Fuller, Francis, 1670-1706.

Date: 1740

Medicina gymnastica: or every man his own physician. A treatise concerning the power of exercise in the cure of several distempers, viz. Consumptions, Dropsy, Hypochondria, and all Nervous Disorders, with several Cases of Persons being cured. By Francis Fuller, M.A. To which is added, rules for health and long life. Written by an eminent physician, for the Direction of a particular Friend, in Regard to his Health; with an Account of a Muscular Exercise recommended to be daily practised, as the best Preservative to Health.

Fuller, Francis, 1670-1706.

Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]

Cichorium intybus L., Asteraceae. Chicory, succory. Distribution: Uses: 'Cichory, (or Succory as the vulgar call it) cools and strengthens the liver: so doth Endive' (Culpeper, 1650). The Cichorium sylvestre, Wilde Succorie, of Gerard (1633) and the leaves cooked into a soup for ill people. Linnaeus (1782) reported it was used for Melancholia, Hypochondria, Hectica [fever], haemorrhage and gout. Root contains 20% inulin, a sweetening agent. Dried, roasted and ground up the roots are used as a coffee substitute, best known as Camp coffee (Chicory and Coffee essence). This used to be sold in tall square section bottle with a label showing a circa 1885 army tent with a Sikh soldier standing and serving coffee to a seated officer from the Gordon Highlanders. The bottle on the label has now moved on, and since 2006 it shows the same tent but the Sikh and the Scot are now both seated, drinking Camp coffee together. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Dr Henry Oakeley

Dissertatio inauguralis medica, de therapia passionis hypochondriacae ...

Clacius, Georgius.

Date: [1713]

A hypochondriac with an enormous quantity of medicine bottles and pill boxes receiving a visitor. Watercolour by H.M. Bateman, 1915.

Bateman, H. M. 1887-1970.

Date: 1915

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 intirely new. The whole interspers'd, with instructive discourses on the real art of physick itself; and entertaining remarks on the modern practice of physicians and aopthecaries: very useful to all, that have the misfortune to stand in need of either. In three dialogues. By B. De Mandeville, M.D.

Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.

Date: 1711

Traité complet de l'hypochondrie

Brachet, J. L. 1789-1858.

Date: 1844

Disputatio medica inauguralis. De melancholia hypochondriaca ...

Koch, Johannes Marcus.

Date: 1665

Aperçu très-succinct sur l'affection hypocondriaque

Date: [1800]

Trias maritima, proponens, per introductionem trium aegrotantium; : sororum morbosarum domesticarum, hypochondriacae, spleneticae; ... meseraicae; ... phantasticae; ortum & interitum.

Smoll, Gottfried, active 1609-1610.

Date: 1610

Trattato dell'ipocondria, e suoi accidenti : con sua cura, & insegnamento di rimedii

Farra, Grassino.

Date: 1699

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 intirely 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: Very useful to all, that have the Misfortune to stand in need of either. In three dialogues. By B. de Mandeville, M.D.

Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.

Date: 1711

Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de malo hypochondriaco : quam, annuente summo numine : ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti : nec non amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto : pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis

Stark, John, active 1783.

Date: 1783

Dissertation sur le danger de la lecture des livres de médecine par les gens du monde ;

Piorry, P. A. 1794-1879.

Date: 1816

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