A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions, vulgarly call'd the hypo in men and vapours in women ... 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 / [B. M (Bernard Mandeville)].

  • Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733
Date:
1715
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Credit: A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions, vulgarly call'd the hypo in men and vapours in women ... 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 / [B. M (Bernard Mandeville)]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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