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
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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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    T H E PREFACE WHEN the crafty Tempter of Man¬ kind meditating their Ruine, attack'd our firft Sire in his Pride, he ftiew’d himfelf profoundly skill’d in Humane Nature $ from which the Vice I named is fo infeparable that it is itnpoffible the latter fhould be ever entirely deftroy’d, as long as the firft re¬ mains. I have no defign, Reader, to tire you* with the Catalogue of irretrievable Calamities, it has been the occafion of, both before and fince the Creation $ but fhall only obferve to you, that as it was deftrufltive to onexperienc’d Adamr by bringing Sicknefs iind Death upon him, foit has (till continued :o be no lefs pernicious to his forwarr/d Pofterky, by principally obftrufting the pro- ^refs of the glorious Art that fliould teach he Recovery as well as Prefervation of dealth, I *Tis Pride that makes the Phyfician a- fandon the fclid Obfervation of never er- v • A 2' rsng