Hypochondriasis: A Practical Treatise (1766)
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John Hill is President and CEO of Derivatives Strategy Group. He previously served as Co-Head of Global Energy Futures at Merrill Lynch and at ABN AMRO bank and as President and CEO of Broadway Futures Group, a small independent broker. He was Senior Vice President of North American Sales for Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), one of the first electronic platforms and was a model to many more recent start-ups. During his tenure at ICE, the company grew from a small, Atlanta-headquartered private company to a public company with an IPO valued at $12 billion. It now owns and operates the NYSE, among other businesses. Mr. Hill was also Senior Vice President at ICAP, the largest interdealer broker, where his focus was developing electronic businesses and planning compliance with Dodd Frank regulations.
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Hypochondriasis - John Hill
John Hill
Hypochondriasis: A Practical Treatise (1766)
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
HYPOCHONDRIASIS.
A
PRACTICAL TREATISE, &c.
HYPOCHONDRIASIS.
SECT. I.
The Nature of the Disorder .
SECT. II.
Persons Subject to it.
SECT. III.
The Symptoms of the Disorder .
SECT. IV.
The Danger .
SECT. V.
The Causes of the Hypochondriasis .
SECT. V.
The Cure of the Hypochondriasis .
SECT. VI.
Rules of Life for Hypochondriac Persons.
SECT. VII.
The proper Diet .
SECT. VIII.
The Medicine .
The Augustan Reprint Society
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK
MEMORIAL LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
INTRODUCTION
Table of Contents
"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 doctor of the west, in a little tract he hath written, divides the Spleen and Vapours, not only into the Hypp, the Hyppos, and the Hyppocons; but subdivides these divisions into the Markambles, the Moonpalls, the Strong-Fiacs, and the Hockogrokles."
Nicholas Robinson, A New System of the Spleen, Vapours, and Hypochondriack Melancholy (London, 1729)
Treatises on hypochondriasis—the seventeenth-century medical term for a wide range of nervous diseases—were old when Sir
John Hill, the eccentric English scientist, physician, apothecary, and hack writer, published his Hypochondriasis in 1766.[1] For at least a century and a half medical writers as well as lay authors had been writing literature of all types (treatises, pamphlets, poems, sermons, epigrams) on this most fashionable of English maladies under the variant names of melancholy,
the spleen,
black melancholy,
hysteria,
nervous debility,
the hyp.
Despite the plethora of materia scripta on the subject it makes sense to reprint Hill's Hypochondriasis, because it is indeed a practical treatise
and because it offers the modern student of neoclassical literature a clear summary of the best thoughts that had been put forth on the subject, as well as an explanation of the causes, symptoms, and cures of this commonplace malady.
No reader of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature needs to be reminded of the interest of writers of the period in the condition—disease
is too confining a term—hypochondriasis.[2] Their concern is apparent in both the poetry and prose of two centuries. From Robert Burton's Brobdingnagian exposition in The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) to Tobias Smollett's depiction of the misanthropic and ailing Matthew Bramble in Humphry Clinker (1771), and, of course, well into the nineteenth century, afflicted heroes and weeping heroines populate the pages of England's literature. There is scarcely a decade in the period 1600-1800 that does not contribute to the literature of melancholy; so considerable in number are the works that could be placed under this heading that it actually makes sense to speak of the literature of melancholy.
A kaleidoscopic survey of this literature (exclusive of treatises written on the subject) would include mention of Milton's Il Penseroso
and L'Allegro,
the meditative Puritan and nervous Anglican thinkers of the Restoration (many of whose narrators, such as Richard Baxter, author of