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According to the London physician Nicholas Robinson in his New System of the Spleen, Vapours, and Hypochondriack Melancholy (1729), ‘[t]he World … has been a long Time at a Loss to know what to make of those Disorders we call the Spleen, Vapours, and Hypochondriack Melancholy; nor have they been less puzzled to discover, under what Class of Diseases they might most properly range them.’
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Gowland, A. (2012). Melancholy, Spleen, Hypochondria: Mental diseases in Europe and England from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. In: Bellebaum, A., Hettlage, R. (eds) Missvergnügen. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-93325-2_5
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