TY - GEN AB - 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. AU - Beatty, Heather, CN - Ebrary CN - RC530 CY - London : DA - 2011. ID - 470601 KW - Neuroses KW - Psychiatry LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=2127312 N2 - 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. PB - Pickering & Chatto, PP - London : PY - 2011. SN - 9781848933095 T1 - Nervous disease in late eighteenth-century Britainthe reality of a fashionable disorder / TI - Nervous disease in late eighteenth-century Britainthe reality of a fashionable disorder / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=2127312 ER -