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(2012) Missvergnügen, Dordrecht, Springer.

Melancholy, Spleen, Hypochondria

Mental diseases in Europe and England from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

Angus Gowland

pp. 95-116

According to the London physician Nicholas Robinson in his New System of the Spleen, Vapours, and Hypochondriack Melancholy (1729), "[t]he World … has been a long Time at a Loss to know what to make of those Disorders we call the Spleen, Vapours, and Hypochondriack Melancholy; nor have they been less puzzled to discover, under what Class of Diseases they might most properly range them."

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-531-93325-2_5

Full citation:

Gowland, A. (2012)., Melancholy, Spleen, Hypochondria: Mental diseases in Europe and England from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, in A. Bellebaum & R. Hettlage (Hrsg.), Missvergnügen, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 95-116.

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