Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry, 1535-1860 by Richard Hunter

Davie, Science and Literature 1700–1740 (London: Sheed & Ward, 1964).įor these shifts in knowledge at large see Thomas S. Rousseau, 107–147 Sacks, Migraine, 26–27 for Willis’s rhetoric and language see D. Frank, ‘Thomas Willis and His Circle: Brain and Mind in Seventeenth-Century Medicine,’ in The Languages of Psyche, ed. Willis’s anatomical ‘explosions’ are discussed by R. For Italian hysteria and hypochondria see Oscar Giacchi, L’isterismo e l’ipochondria avvero il malo nervosa … Giudizii fisio-clinici-sociali (Milan, 1875). He believed that hysteria was a mental disease caused by passions of the troubled mind in this sense, he is less accurate and intuitive than Sydenham but nevertheless important. 1723) was written with a knowledge of Sydenham’s theories. His book De praxi medicina (1699 English trans. Knight, Ordering the World: A History of Classifying the World (London: Macmillan, 1980).īaglivi held a chair of medical theory in the collegio della Sapienza in Rome, having been elected to it by Pope Clement XI. Disease was then understood almost entirely within the terms of categories and classifications, as the wide taxonomic tendencies of the era had doctors compiling and classifying every disease in terms of its major symptoms, anatomic presentations, organic involvements, and so forth. The term category as I have been using it in this chapter should not suggest philosophical so much as medical category. Thrale 1776–1809, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1942 rev. Balderston, ed., Thraliana: The Diary of Mrs. Turner, ‘The School of Men: Libertine Texts in the Subculture of Restoration London’ (a talk given at UCLA, 1989) for a remarkably detailed case history of male effeminacy of the playwright Richard Cumberland in the eighteenth century, For some of the reasons see Trumbach, ‘The Birth of the Queen’ J. See also Isler, Thomas Willis.īeliefs about the effeminacy of men antedate the Restoration, of course, but the idea acquired altogether different currency then. Quoted in Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine, Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry, 1535–1860 (London: Oxford University Press, 1963).

Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry, 1535-1860 by Richard Hunter