As a psychiatric term 'depression' dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: 'melancholy' carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.

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Morbus Anglicus: or, The Anatomy of Consumptions (1666)
Dr. Willis's Receipts for the Cure of all Distempers (1701)
Levamen Infirmi: or, Cordial Counsel to the Sick and Diseased (1700)
Observations on the Spleen and Vapours (1721)
A Treatise of the Diseases of the Head, Brain, and Nerves (1721)
Of the Spleen (1723)
A Treatise of the Spleen and Vapours (1725)
Select Cases, and Consultations, in Physick (1757)
Medicina Musica (1729)
Sober Thoughts for the Cure of Melancholy, especially that which is Religious (1749)
A Treatise on the Dismal Effects of Low-Spiritedness (1750)
Observations on the Nature, Causes, and Cure of those Disorders which have been commonly called Nervous Hypochondriac, or Hysteric (1765)
A Dissertation upon the Nerves (1768)
A Cure for Melancholy (1777)
Medical Instructions Towards the Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases Peculiar to Women (1781)
Observations on the Nature, Causes and Cure of Melancholy (1780)
A System of the Practice of Medicine (1783)
Thoughts on Nervous Disorders (1784)
Cases of Insanity, the Epilepsy, Hypochondriacal Affection, Hysteric Passion, and Nervous Disorders (1785)
A Treatise on Female, Nervous, Hysterical, Hypochondriacal, Bilious, Convulsive Diseases (1788)
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