A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases. in Three Dialogues.

xxii, [10], 380 pp. Full leather, gilt double rule borders. Reissue of Garrison-Morton 10703: "Probably the first psychiatric self-help book. Hunter and Macalpine call Mandeville's work 'the first book on minor mental maladies 'writ by way of Information to Patients' rather than 'to teach other Practitioners'... [Mandeville] gave a graphic account of his own attack of melancholy when he developed the delusion that he had syphilis' (Hunter & Macalpine, p. 296)."