Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1463

MARSHALL HALL (1790-1857) A descriptive, diagnostic and practical essay on disorders of the digestive organs and general health. Printed and published by John Prentiss 1823 2nd ed. 192 pp. 21.6 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1462

When Hall first published this book at London in 1818, he entitled it On the mimosis. He defined mimoses to be "a class of disorders, each of which consists of a more GENERAL morbid affection, usually combined with some TOPICAL symptom or symptoms" (p. [9]). Hall distinguished five classes of mimoses among which were scurvy, dyspepsia or hypochondriasis, chlorosis, hysteria, and a new previously undescribed form characterized by "intestinal irritation and of exhaustation [sic] from loss of blood or other causes" (p. 12). His nomenclature was not readily adopted and the second edition appeared under the present title.

Cited references: Cushing H53; Wellcome III, p. 196 (London ed., 1820)

Gift of William B. Bean, M.D