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Title: Hypochondriasis
A Practical Treatise (1766)

Author: John Hill

Release Date: September 27, 2009 [eBook #30099]

Language: English

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JOHN HILL

HYPOCHONDRIASIS

A Practical Treatise.

(1766)

Introduction by

G. S. ROUSSEAU

Publication Number 135
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University Of California, Los Angeles
1969

GENERAL EDITORS

William E. Conway, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_
George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_
Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

David S. Rodes, _University of California, Los Angeles_

ADVISORY EDITORS

Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_
James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_
Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_
Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_
Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_
Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_
Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_
Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_
Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_
Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_
James Sutherland, _University College, London_
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_
Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Mary Kerbret, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_

INTRODUCTION

"When I first dabbled in this art, the old distemper call'd
_Melancholy_ was exchang'd for _Vapours_, and afterwards for the
_Hypp_, and at last took up the now current appellation of the
_Spleen_, which it still retains, tho' a learned doc