@article{470601,
      recid = {470601},
      author = {Beatty, Heather,},
      title = {Nervous disease in late eighteenth-century Britain the  reality of a fashionable disorder / [electronic resource]  :},
      publisher = {Pickering & Chatto,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {1 online resource (vii, 241 p.)},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century  newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the  experience of suffering from nervous disease - a supposedly  upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that 'nervousness' was  a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in  eighteenth-century medical theory.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/470601},
}