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Concept

Hypochondriasis

Images

  • A hypochondriac at home with his anxious nurse. Wood engraving.
  • Le malade imaginaire: Argan, a hypochondriac, complaining of his ailments to his nurse. Pen and ink drawing by L. Frölich, 1859.
  • A seated hypochondriac shivering in front of a fire and surrounded by pills. Coloured aquatint by A. Atkinson, 1819.
  • Six scenes narrating the fuss caused by a man's progression from minor cold to supposed major illness and then sudden recovery. Etching by J. Lisle after himself.
  • Tabitha Grunt a hypochondriac who appears to suffer from many illnesses, consulting a bemused looking doctor. Coloured reproduction of an etching after G. Cruikshank, 1813.

Catalogue

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    A hypochondriac tells her doctor that she has a pain in her heart whilst clutching the wrong side of her chest. Reproduction of a drawing after Beauchamp, 1932.

    Beauchamp, active 1927. | Date: 1932 | Reference: 15508i
    • Books

    Senile insanity : hypochondriasis / by John M. Galt ..., Superintendent and Physician of the Eastern Asylum of Virginia.

    Galt, John M. (John Minson), 1819-1862. | Date: 1856
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    A hypochondriac with an enormous quantity of medicine bottles and pill boxes receiving a visitor. Watercolour by H.M. Bateman, 1915.

    Bateman, H. M. (Henry Mayo), 1887-1970. | Date: 1915 | Reference: 2441i
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    Thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 2 avril 1841 / par Corvin A. Olszewo Olszewski, Alphonse-Jean-Nepomucin-François.

    Corvin A. Olszewo Olszewski, Alphonse-Jean-Nepomucin-François. | Date: 1841
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    Traité des affections vaporeuses des deux sexes / [Pierre Pomme].

    Pomme, Pierre, 1735-1812 | Date: 1769
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