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BLACKMORE, RICHARD, Sir. A Treatise of the Spleen and Vapours; or, Hypocondriacal and Hysterical Affections. With Three Discourses on the Nature and Cure of the Cholick, xxxiv, [2], 284 pages. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, crudely rebacked, top of spine chipped, cover edges partly worn through; small piece excised from blank upper margin of a2, last text leaf tipped to inside rear cover not affecting text, rear endpapers lacking. O. O. Fisher bookplate. London: J. Pemberton, 1725
first edition. "Blackmore . . . promoted the view of mental illness as a continuum, and removed attention away from the isolated phases and acute attacks that had previously regarded as separate and distinct diseases. Blackmore also provided the first cogent arguments for and against the use of drugs to relieve minor psychiatric disturbances" (Norman). Hunter & Macalpine, pages 319-324; Norman 240.
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