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    Hypochondriasis - A pratical treatise
    Hypochondriasis - A pratical treatise
    Hypochondriasis - A pratical treatise
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    Hypochondriasis - A pratical treatise

    By John Hill

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    INTRODUCTION
    SECT. I. - The NATURE of the DISORDER
    SECT. II. - Persons Subject to it
    SECT. III. - The SYMPTOMS of the DISORDER
    SECT. IV. - The DANGER
    SECT. V. - The Causes of the HYPOCHONDRIASIS
    SECT. VI. - Rules of Life for Hypochondriac Persons
    SECT. VII. - The proper DIET
    SECT. VIII. - The MEDICINE
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGIANLUCA
    Release dateNov 7, 2017
    ISBN9788827512807
    Hypochondriasis - A pratical treatise
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    John Hill

    John Hill was formerly the China Watch editor for Jane’s Intelligence Review, and has reported widely on security matters for a range of Jane’s publications. He is Writing Centre Coordinator at Vancouver Island University.

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      Hypochondriasis - A pratical treatise - John Hill

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      INTRODUCTION

      When I first dabbled in this art, the old distemper call’d Melancholy was exchang’d for Vapours, and afterwards for the Hypp, and at last took up the now current appellation of the Spleen, which it still retains, tho’ a learned doctor of the west, in a little tract he hath written, divides the Spleen and Vapours, not only into the Hypp, the Hyppos, and the Hyppocons; but subdivides these divisions into the Markambles, the Moonpalls, the Strong-Fiacs, and the Hockogrokles.

      Nicholas Robinson, A New System of the Spleen, Vapours, and Hypochondriack Melancholy (London, 1729)

      Treatises on hypochondriasis: the seventeenth-century medical term for a wide range of nervous diseases were old when Sir John Hill, the eccentric English scientist, physician, apothecary, and hack writer, published his Hypochondriasis in 1766.[1] For at least a century and a half medical writers as well as lay authors had been writing literature of all types (treatises, pamphlets, poems, sermons, epigrams) on this most fashionable of English maladies under the variant names of melancholy, the spleen, black melancholy, hysteria, nervous debility, the hyp. Despite the plethora of materia scripta on the subject it makes sense to reprint Hill’s Hypochondriasis, because it is indeed a practical treatise and because it offers the modern student of neoclassical literature a clear summary of the best thoughts that had been put forth on the subject, as well as an explanation of the causes, symptoms, and cures of this commonplace malady.

      No reader of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature needs to be reminded of the interest of writers of the period in the condition disease is too confining a term hypochondriasis. [2] Their concern is apparent in both the poetry and prose of two centuries. From Robert Burton’s Brobdingnagian exposition in The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) to Tobias Smollett’s depiction of the misanthropic and ailing Matthew Bramble in Humphry Clinker (1771), and, of course, well into the nineteenth century, afflicted heroes and weeping heroines populate the pages of England’s literature. There is scarcely a decade in the period 1600-1800 that does not contribute to the literature of melancholy; so considerable in number are the works that could be placed under this heading that it actually makes sense to speak of the literature of melancholy. A kaleidoscopic survey of this literature (exclusive of treatises written on the subject) would include mention of Milton’s Il Penseroso and L’Allegro, the meditative Puritan and nervous Anglican thinkers of the Restoration (many of whose narrators, such as Richard Baxter, author of the Reliquiae Baxterianae,[3] are afflicted), Swift’s School of Spleen in A Tale of a Tub, Pope’s hysterical Belinda in the Cave of Spleen, the melancholic I of Samuel Richardson’s correspondence, Gray’s leucocholy, the psychosomatically ailing characters of The Vicar of Wakefield and Tristram Shandy, Boswell’s Hypochondriack Papers (1777-1783) contributed to the London Magazine, and such sensible and sensitive women as Mrs. Bennett and Miss Bates in the novels of Jane Austen. So great in bulk is this literature in the mid eighteenth century, that C. A. Moore has written, statistically, this deserves to be called the Age of Melancholy. [4] The vastness of this literature is sufficient to justify the reprinting of an unavailable practical handbook on the subject by

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