Medical Hints, Designed for the Use of Clergymen, and Others, in Places Where Professional Advice Cannot Be Immediately Procured, 1820

This disease is almost confined to females of an irritable nervous system, the single more than the married, from the age of fifteen, to thirty-five or forty.

They are readily excited in those who are subject to the, by passions of the mind, and sometimes they come on from imitation and sympathy.