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Hysteria -- Early works to 1900

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• Hysteria

• A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Passions (London: D. Leach, 1711), by Bernard Mandeville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System, Especially in Women (second edition, revised and enlarged; Philadelphia: Lea Bros. and Co., 1885), by S. Weir Mitchell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Selected Papers on Hysteria and Other Psychoneuroses (New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Pub. Co., c1909), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets, Perform'd by Mr. John Howard, Surgeon at Guilford (second edition; London: Printed for J. Clarke, 1727), by Nathanael St. André (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hysteria Beyond Freud (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1993), by Sander L. Gilman, Helen King, G. S. Rousseau, and Elaine Showalter (HTML at UC Press)

• Hysteria Beyond Freud (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1993), by Sander L. Gilman, Helen King, G. S. Rousseau, and Elaine Showalter (HTML at UC Press)

• Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Peter Melville Logan (HTML at UC Press)

• Phantasmata: or, Illusions and Fanaticisms of Protean Forms, Productive of Great Evils (2 volumes; London: T. C. Newby, 1857), by Richard Robert Madden (page images at HathiTrust)