The English malady: or, a treatise of nervous diseases of all kinds, as spleen, vapours, lowness of spirits, hypochondriacal, and hysterical distempers, &c. In three parts. ... : with the author's own case at large / by George Cheyne.

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1735
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Credit: The English malady: or, a treatise of nervous diseases of all kinds, as spleen, vapours, lowness of spirits, hypochondriacal, and hysterical distempers, &c. In three parts. ... : with the author's own case at large / by George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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