The Augustan Reprint Society JOHN HILL HYPOCHONDRIASIS A Practical Treatise. (1766) Introduction by G. S. ROUSSEAU Publication Number 135 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University Of California, Los Angeles 1969 GENERAL EDITORS William E. Conway, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ ASSOCIATE EDITOR David S. Rodes, _University of California, Los Angeles_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Mary Kerbret, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION "When I first dabbled in this art, the old distemper call'd _Melancholy_ was exchang'd for _Vapours_, and afterwards for the _Hypp_, and at last took up the now current appellation of the _Spleen_, which it still retains, tho' a learned doctor of the west, in a little tract he hath written, divides the _Spleen_ and _Vapours_, not only into the _Hypp_, the _Hyppos_, and the Hyppocons; but subdivides these divisions into the _Markambles_, the _Moonpalls_, the _Strong-Fiacs_, and the _Hockogrokles_." Nicholas Robinson, _A New System of the Spleen, Vapours, and Hypochondriack Melancholy_ (London, 1729)