PURCELL JOHN A Treatise of Vapours or Hysterick Fits Seco

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PURCELL, JOHN. A Treatise of Vapours, or Hysterick Fits . . . Second Edition, Revis'd and Augmented. [16], 238, [10] pages. 8vo, 19th-century 1/2 dyed pigskin, front cover detached, rear joint worn; light marginal dampstaining throughout, title soiled. London: Edward Place, 1707

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First published in 1702. "Purcell . . . took 'Epilepsies and this Distemper to be the same Disease' . . . In this sense he applied it to all episodic disturbances of consciousness short only of cases showing the classical tonic-clonic stages of grand mal"--Hunter & Macalpine, page 288.