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In his Lectures on the Duties and Qualifi cations of a Physician (1770) Doctor John Gregory sympathized with students who were forced to study medical history, claiming, ‘It is indeed an unpleasant task, and, at fi rst view, seems a useless one, to enquire into the numerous theories that have infl uenced the practice of physic in diff erent ages’. Nevertheless, he maintained, the subject did have some redeeming value; certain forgotten historical remedies could have real therapeutic importance, and the study of ‘fanciful hypotheses’ adopted by physicians of earlier ages could encourage modern practitioners to be more discerning in their own adherence to new medical To. | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth Century Britain Heather R. Beatty Number 6 NERVOUS DISEASE IN LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN THE REALITY OF A FASHIONABLE DISORDER Studies for the SociETy FOR THE Social HisTORy OF Medicine Series Editors David Cantor Keir Waddington TitLES IN tHis Series 1 Meat Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century David Cantor Christian Bonah and Matthias Dorries eds 2 Locating Health Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health Erika Dyck and Christopher Fletcher eds 3 Medicine in the Remote and Rural North 1800-2000 J. T. H. Connor and Stephan Curtis eds 4 A Modern History of the Stomach Gastric Illness Medicine and British Society 1800-1950 Ian Miller 5 War and the Militarization of British Army Medicine 1793-1830 Catherine Kelly FORtHCOMING TitLES Desperate Housewives Neuroses and the Domestic Environment 1945-1970 Ali Haggett .