TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldstein,Jan
TI  - Hysteria complicated by ecstasy: the case of Nanette Leroux 
SN  - 9781299906877
AV  - RC532 .H978 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Leroux, Nanette.
KW  - Hysteria
KW  - Case studies
KW  - complications
KW  - France
KW  - Case Reports
KW  - history
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine
KW  - adverse effects
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the spa at Aix-les-Bains, she became the charity patient of its medical director, Antoine Despine, who treated her with hydrotherapy and animal magnetism, as hypnosis was then called. Jan Goldstein translates, and provides a substantial introduct
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