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Adair, James, 38, 4850, 143, 196

addiction, 123, 1256
aether, 1214
alcohol, 104, 1257
American Philosophical Society, 423
Anderson, John, 109, 114
Andrew, John, 129
animal spirits, 11, 1213, 1617
animism, 1314
Archer, John, 21
Aristotle, 9, 11
asafoetida, 124, 138
see also medication
Austen, Jane, 88, 1645

Brown, John, 324, 37

see also Brunonianism
Browne, Alexander, 134
Brunonianism, 323, 178
see also John Brown
Buchan, William, 17, 26, 39, 99, 101,
1056, 112, 11618
Burney, Fanny, 142
Burton, Robert, 9, 20
Anatomy of Melancholy, 910, 112, 164
Burton, John, 161
Byron, George, Lord, 1767
Caesar, Julius, 105
camphor, 1234, 138
see also medication
Chadwick, Edwin, 1523
see also public health
chalybeate water, 767, 114, 1201, 138
see also spas, treatment
chamber horse, 108, 111, 115
see also exercise
Chamberlaine, William, 1267
Chapone, Hester, 161
Cheyne, George, 20, 24, 26, 53, 78, 1024,
108, 114, 141, 1434, 149, 159
English Malady, 2, 69, 1721, 105, 146,
164, 177, 179
chronic disease, 40, 85
civilization,
unhealthy effects of, 2, 19, 1412,
146148, 169, 177, 179
see also nervous disease, causes
class and nervous patients
patients of all classes, 534, 127, 139,
142, 14951

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Baillie, Matthew, 48, 88

Barbon, Nicholas, 167
Bath, 5960, 110, 11213, 1201,
1245
see also spas
Baynard, Edward, 20, 102
Beard, George, 179
Beddoes, Thomas, 3, 33, 378, 4950, 53,
59, 61, 147, 186
Hygeia, 87, 512, 1612
Bell, Benjamin, 103, 106
Berkeley, George, 126
Blackmore, Sir Richard, 15
bleeding, 100, 1323, 134, 138
see also leeches, treatment
blisters, 100, 1315, 1389
see also treatment
Boerhaave, Hermaan, 1213
Boswell, James, 3, 21, 72, 79, 94, 109, 146,
149, 154
Brodum, William, 58, 188

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lower class patients, 913, 99, 1312,

137, 139, 142, 149, 151
upper class patients, 1920, 41, 91,
934, 112, 114, 131, 137, 149
climate, 11416, 169
see also non-naturals
coffee, 104, 150
see also nervous disease, causes
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 3, 176
Cooke, John, 42, 183
Cowper, William, 171
Cox, Daniel, 123
Cullen, William, 4, 313, 424, 467,
4950, 545, 57, 59, 61, 69, 99,
101103, 1056, 11013, 11517,
121, 128, 1302, 134, 138, 144, 155,
173, 183
correspondence, 4, 301, 468, 636, 134
Nosology, 303, 51, 152, see also, Neuroses
cupping, 1349
see also treatment

Enlightenment, Scottish, 3, 25, 153, 166, 169

exercise, 434, 1058, 113, 116, 1378, 155
see also chamber horse, non-naturals, sailing, horseback riding, treatment
Falconer, William, 42, 44, 61, 103, 1089,
115, 130, 1556, 183
fashion
and nervous disease, 2, 212, 27, 139,
1413, 149, 172, 1756, 179
Ferguson, Adam, 1667
Fielding, Henry, 24
Flemyng, Malcolm, 16
flesh brush, 106
Fordyce, James, 159
Fothergill, Anthony, 155
Franklin, Benjamin, 42
Fuller, Francis, 106
Galen, 8, 1011, 44, 101
Garden, Francis, Lord Gardenstone, 767
Gibbon, Edward, 146, 1578
Gilchrist, Ebenezer, 42, 1079, 115, 183
Godfrey, Ambrose, 123
Godwin, William, 170
Graham, James, 38, 589, 61, 188
Gregory, John, 1, 434, 545, 70, 129, 132,
1469, 15961, 183
guilt
among patients, 824

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degeneration, 88, 146, 151, 1623, 166, 178
delicacy, feminine, 3, 22, 77, 90, 96, 141,
15863
depression, see melancholy
diet, 43, 878 1015, 1378
see also non-naturals, vegetarianism
disease narratives, 3, 27, 968, 17881
and celebrity, 72, 778
diversion,
as treatment, 109114, 116, 131, 154
see also travel, treatment
dualism, 13
Duncan, Andrew, 111, 118
Dyspepsia, 778, 89
Edinburgh, University of, 4, 12, 1415,
2930, 41, 445, 49, 59, 61, 69,
1445, 167
see also, education, medical
education, medical, 41, 46, 102, 132
see also, Edinburgh, Leiden, and Philadelphia, University of
effeminacy, 51, 946, 143, 16670, 178
electric-shock therapy, 100, 132, 1357
see also treatment

Halford, Sir Henry, 42, 89, 117, 184

Haller, Albrecht von, 13, 25
Harvey, John, 12
Haygarth, John, 130
Heberden, William, 40, 423, 94, 104,
11314, 150, 154, 156, 184
hereditary disease, 845, 143, 158, 1634
Hervey, James, 163
Heysham, John, 102
Hill, John, 48, 56, 186
Hippocrates, 8, 10, 26, 44, 103
historiography
of nervous disease 14, 143
Home, Francis, 132
Home, Henry, 148, 166, 169
horseback riding, 86, 1089, 115, 116, 1378
see also exercise

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hospitals, 11112, 1312
admissions procedures, 923, 115, 132
see also Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh
Hume, David, 3, 11, 25, 55, 78, 120, 143,
157, 166
humours, 9, 12, 105, 123, 127, 133
hypochondria, 79, 15, 26
and gender, 11, 29, 902
see also nervous disease
hypochondrium, 8
hysteria, 79, 11, 15, 26, 29, 90
and gender, 89, 11, 29, 901
see also nervous disease
Ingham, William, 138
indigestion see dyspepsia
insanity, 812, 95, 164
irritability, 13
issues, 132, 1345, 138
see also treatment

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Maxwell, Darcy, Lady, 701

Mead, Richard, 108
mechanical physiology, 1213, 151
medication,
side effects of, 124, 11920, 131
as inferior treatment, 589, 11617,
125, 129
see also asafetida, camphor, lavender,
musk, opium, Peruvian bark,
rhubarb, steel, tar water, valerian, vitriol
melancholy, 910, 26, 80, 82
see also nervous disease, suicide
Milligen, George, 121
mind and body connection, 711, 13, 15,
18, 20, 28, 801, 100, 113, 1301, 156
see also passions
Mitchell, John, 73
Montagu, Elizabeth, Lady, 6971
Moore, John, 88, 171
More, Hannah, 161
Mun, Thomas, 167
music, 109
see also treatment
musk, 124
see also medication
Myersbach, Theodor, 456, 59

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Johnson, Samuel, 3, 21, 26, 72, 110, 157

Keats, John, 176
Kinneir, David, 16, 103
Knight, W. D., 58, 60, 188

lavender, spirit of, 119, 1267, 129

see also medication
Lawrence, Sir William, 177
leeches, 1334
see also bleeding
Leiden, University of, 12
see also education, medical
Lettsom, John Coakley, 427, 556, 59, 89,
104, 114, 125, 14851, 184
Lewis, William, 11819, 122
Locke, John, 1112, 18, 114, 148
London, 114, 148
Lowther, William, 58
Lucas, James, 73
luxury, 2, 53, 92, 132, 1412, 146, 148,
1501, 167, 169
see also, nervous disease, causes
Mackenzie, Henry, 22, 24, 142
Mandeville, Bernard, 1516, 18, 20
masturbation, 75, 823
see also, Tissot, Samuel

Nairne, Edward, 136

Neale, Adam, 27, 39, 48, 56, 99, 186
nerve doctors
and networking, 4243, 47, 49, 54, 59
and self-promotion, 568
sensibility of, 556
nerve structure, 1016, 18
nervous disease
definition, 12, 57, 9, 17, 2631, 34,
39, 8990
causes, 39, 956, 1002, 104, 145 see
also civilization, coffee, luxury, novels,
passions, tea, venery
as disease of the learned, 9, 1920, 53,
74, 778
in navy and military, 946, 1678
see also hypochondria, hysteria, melancholy
neurasthenia, 17980
neuroses, 30, 42, 178
see also Cullen, Nosology

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Newdigate, Hester, Lady, 723

Newton, Isaac, 1213, 16, 18
non-naturals, 99, 1012, 11517, 137
see also climate, diet, exercise, passions,
sleep, treatment
novels
dangers of, 147
and nervous disease, 6, 214, 71, 165, 175
see also nervous disease, causes
Oliver, William, 42, 120, 184
opium, 1223, 127, 137
see also medication
Parry, Caleb Hillier, 42, 155, 184
passions, 20, 22, 25, 29, 71, 91, 95, 113, 129,
131, 147, 165
see also mind and body connection, nonnaturals and nervous disease, causes
patronage, 23, 27, 100, 114, 117, 143
Peirce, Robert, 89, 1589
Percival, Thomas, 56
Perfect, William, 489, 56, 61, 186
Peruvian bark, 11820, 128, 137
see also medication
Philadelphia, University of, 136
see also education, medical
patients,
difficult, 24, 878, 112, 1568, 165, 178
number of, 8992, 1445
public portrayals of, 5, 21, 79, 878, 96,
112, 141, 171, 175
see also class and nervous patients
Pitcairne, Archibald, 12, 103
placebo effect, 130
postal consultations, 64, 128
Powys, Catherine, 148
Pringle, Sir John, 152
see also public health
public health, 1523
see also Chadwick, Edwin and Pringle,
Sir John

Richardson, Samuel, 214, 26, 141

Romantic poets, 171
Rowley, William, 57, 61, 118, 129, 188
Royal College of Physicians,
London, 412, 46, 57, 89, 123, 158
Edinburgh, 4, 412, 123
Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, 54, 90, 93, 111,
115, 128, 1323, 135
see also hospitals
Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh, 33, 41,
445, 91, 113, 150, 164
Royal Society, London, 130, 135
Rush, Benjamin, 32, 44, 55, 57, 149
Rutherford, John, 106
Rutty, John, 126
Rymer, James, 489, 534, 124, 187
sailing, 1078, 115
see also exercise
Saunders, Joseph, 11011
Scot, John, 48, 187
Scott, Patrick, 81
seaside resorts, 114, 117
see also travel
self-help, 17, 21, 669, 87, 1267
see also treatment
seltzer water, 121
see also treatment
sensibility, 15960, 162, 1646, 1768
as a fashion, 6971, 748, 23, 144,
161
pathological, 7, 1314, 28, 68, 89, 100,
136, 146, 152
exclusive to upper class, 20
sentient principle, 14
setons, 132, 134
see also treatment
Shoenheider, John Henry, 133
Skeete, Thomas, 119
sleep, 102, 111
see also non-naturals
Smith, Adam, 3, 25, 55, 112, 120, 143, 157,
166, 1723
Smith, Hugh, 48, 187
Smollett, Tobias, 22, 169
Solomon, Samuel, 58, 125, 188
spas, 11216, 120
see also Bath, chalybeate water
Stahl, Georg Ernst, 13

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Quincy, John, 122
Reid, John, 178
religion
and nervous disease, 70, 141
rhubarb, 118, 1212, 127
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steel, 11820, 137
see also medication
Sterne, Laurence, 22, 175
Stewart, Dugald, 170
sthenia, 32
suicide, 82, 115
see also melancholy
Sutherland, Alexander, 105, 108, 150
Sydenham, Thomas, 11, 30, 145
sympathy, 25, 152, 170
symptoms, nervous, 10, 26, 289, 3940,
734, 1378, 148, 178
imaginary, 7981, 1534
sanitized, 23
tar water, 1267
see also medication
tea, 104, 1501
see also nervous disease, causes
Temple, Sir William, 144
Thicknesse, Philip, 87
Thompson, Alexander, 31, 1201, 150
Thompson, Thomas, 154
Thomson, Alexander, 48, 187
Thornton, Robert, 17, 154
Tissot, Samuel, 143
see also masturbation
travel, 67, 86, 11216
see also diversion, treatment, seaside
resorts
treatment,
theories behind, 6, 97
efficacy of, 116, 12731, 137
see also bleeding, blisters, chalybeate water, cupping, diet, diversion,
electric
shock therapy, exercise, issues, music, selfhelp, seltzer water, setons, travel

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Trotter, Thomas, 38, 4950, 59, 945,

103, 111, 11517, 123, 145, 147,
149, 162, 164, 168, 171, 187
View of the Nervous Temperament, 4, 34,
50, 525, 108, 142
Trusler, John, 125
Twining, Thomas, 121
valerian, 1267, 1389
see also medication
Vaughan, Benjamin, 178
vegetarianism, 1034, 116
see also diet
venereal disease, 95
venery, 75, 83
see also nervous disease, causes
vital princple, 14
Vitalism, 14, 151
vitriol, 118, 122
see also medications
Voltaire, 78

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Walker, Sayer, 34, 42, 51, 149, 162, 166, 185
Walpole, Horace, 112
Webster, Joshua, 58, 125, 188
Wedderburn, Alexander, 112
Wesley, John, 70, 102, 135
Primitive Physic, 17, 66, 1267
Whytt, Robert, 7, 14, 345, 40, 434, 49,
59, 90, 106, 11920, 144, 170, 185
Observations, 4, 7, 25, 2730, 50, 68, 99,
101, 108, 1412
Willan, Robert, 89
Willis, Thomas, 1011, 145
Wilson, Andrew, 42, 148, 185
Winslow, Forbes, 43, 88
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1601, 170