Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 2

Leigh Wetherall Dickson, Allan Ingram, David Walker, Anita O'Connell, Michelle Faubert

• Introduction, Select Bibliography, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus: or, Th e Anatomy of Consumptions (1666), T omas Willis, Dr. Willis’s Receipts for the Cure of all Distempers (1701), David Irish, Levamen Infirmi: or, Cordial Counsel to the Sick and Diseased (1700), ‘Sir John Midriff ’, Observations on the Spleen and Vapours (1721), Anon., A Treatise of the Diseases of the Head, Brain, and Nerves (1721), William Stukeley, Of the Spleen (1723), Sir Richard Blackmore, A Treatise of the Spleen and Vapours (1725), John Woodward, Select Cases, and Consultations, in Physick (1757), Richard Browne, Medicina Musica (1729), Edward Synge, Sober Thoughts for the Cure of Melancholy, especially that which is Religious (1749), Anon., A Treatise on the Dismal Effects of Low-Spiritedness (1750), Robert Whytt, Observations on the Nature, Causes, and Cure of those Disorders which have been commonly called Nervous Hypochondriac, or Hysteric (1765), William Smith, A Dissertation upon the Nerves (1768), ‘William Wishwell’, A Cure for Melancholy (1777), John Leake, Medical Instructions Towards the Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases Peculiar to Women (1781), Benjamin Fawcett, Observations on the Nature, Causes and Cure of Melancholy (1780), Friedrich Hoffmann, A System of the Practice of Medicine (1783), John Wesley, Thoughts on Nervous Disorders (1784), vi Depression and Melancholy, 1660–1800: Volume 2 William Perfect, Cases of Insanity, the Epilepsy, Hypochondriacal Affection, Hysteric Passion, and Nervous Disorders (1785), William Rowley, A Treatise on Female, Nervous, Hysterical, Hypochondriacal, Bilious, Convulsive Diseases (1788), Glossary, Editorial Notes