Bernard Mandeville: A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases (1730)
Kleiman-Lafon, Sylvi
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Release Date: 10/08/2018
Edition: Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2017 ed.
Label: Springer International Publishing AG
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
Contributors: Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon (Edited by)
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Mandeville’s aim was to delineate his own cure for hypochondria and hysteria, which consisted of a talking cure followed by diet and exercise, but also to discuss the practice of medicine in England and continental Europe at a time when physicians were beginning to lose ground to apothecaries.