Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain AI Seth Klarman

Seth Klarman

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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain AI Seth KlarmanThis 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 nervousness was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth century medical theory.