• Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Europe 1100-1800, The University of Western Australia
Doctors treated the bodies – and minds – of those suffering from hypochondriac disease. Domenico di Bartolo/Wikimedia Commons

Hypochondriac disease – in the mind, the guts, or the soul?

Welcome to Medical Histories, a series that brings you curious stories from the history of medicine. In this first instalment, we look at the apparent epidemic of “hypochondriac disease” in the early modern…

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