Former diagnostic category describing a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses

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Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière : service de M. Charcot / par Bourneville et P. Regnard.

Baldwin's Nervous Pills : cures nervousness, irritability of temper, want of strength and energy, fear, dread, neuralgia, hysteria, disturbed sleep, melancholy, insomnia, and all nerve pain and diseases.

Post card : nerve troubles cured by the latest scientific discovery.

Bromocalcine : sédatif nervin et régulateur des fonctions végétatives.

The seventeenth-century transformation of the hysteric affection, and Sydenham's Baconian medicine / Jeffrey M.N. Boss.

On the simulation of hysteria by organic disease of the nervous system / [Thomas Buzzard].

État mental des hystériques : les accidents mentaux / par Pierre Janet.

Recherches cliniques et thérapeutiques sur l'épilepsie & l'hystérie : compte-rendu des observations recueillies à la Salpétrière de 1872 à 1875 / par Bourneville.

Essays on hysteria, brain-tumor, and some other cases of nervous disease.

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Hysteria

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The seventeenth-century transformation of the hysteric affection, and Sydenham's Baconian medicine / Jeffrey M.N. Boss.

On the simulation of hysteria by organic disease of the nervous system / [Thomas Buzzard].

État mental des hystériques : les accidents mentaux / par Pierre Janet.

Recherches cliniques et thérapeutiques sur l'épilepsie & l'hystérie : compte-rendu des observations recueillies à la Salpétrière de 1872 à 1875 / par Bourneville.

Essays on hysteria, brain-tumor, and some other cases of nervous disease.

Hysteria

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Images referencing Hysteria

Works from the collections

The seventeenth-century transformation of the hysteric affection, and Sydenham's Baconian medicine / Jeffrey M.N. Boss.

On the simulation of hysteria by organic disease of the nervous system / [Thomas Buzzard].

État mental des hystériques : les accidents mentaux / par Pierre Janet.

Recherches cliniques et thérapeutiques sur l'épilepsie & l'hystérie : compte-rendu des observations recueillies à la Salpétrière de 1872 à 1875 / par Bourneville.

Essays on hysteria, brain-tumor, and some other cases of nervous disease.

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