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Hysteria - Early works to 1900

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    The function and diagnosis of hysteria in 19th century fiction and medical texts / by Scott Perna.

    Perna, Scott. | Date: 2002
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    A briefe discourse of a disease called the suffocation of the mother : Written vppon occasion which hath beene of late taken thereby, to suspect possesion of an euill spirit, or some such like supernaturall power. Wherin is declared that diuers strange actions and passions of the body of man, which in the common opinion, are imputed to the diuell, haue their true naturall causes, and do accompanie this disease. By Edvvard Iorden Doctor in Physicke.

    Jorden, Edward, 1569-1632 | Date: 1603
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