Download or read book Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain written by Heather R Beatty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease – a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that ‘nervousness’ was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth-century medical theory.