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This title explores the 'fashionable' nervous disease which was prevalent in late 18th-century Britain. The book will be of interest to students studying the history of medicine and 18th century studies.
This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease - a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that, far from the stereotyped portrayal of nervous patients in c…