Author: Gravius, Christianus Pius.
Title: Disputatio inauguralis anatomica-practica De passione hysterica,
Description: Quam praeside Dn. Justi Vesti. Erfurt : Joh. Georg. Hertz, 1685. Modern boards. 20 pp. Exlibri of Johan W. Schotman & Dr. B.J. Kam on endpapers. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Late 17th century dissertation on 'passionate' hysteria. Hysteria is considered the oldest of all observed mental disorders and in the Corpus Hippocraticum, the cause of the illness mentioned in the Corpus Hippocraticum is the sick womb. Conceptually, it was assumed, among other things, that the uterus, if it is not regularly fed with semen (sperm), wanders around the body searching for it, in the event of a suffocatio it can ascend to the heart and then even bite down on the brain. Many patients of hysteria were prosecuted as witches and underwent interrogations, torture, exorcisms, and execution. In the same period as this dissertation the idea of a wandering uterus was first contradicted by the English doctor Thomas Sydenham, who in 1682 wrote a famous essay on hysteria, which he regarded as hypochondria, in a letter to William Cole.

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