Genre:

Regular Feature, Notes, Instructions

Subjects:

Mental Illness, Medical Treatment, Gender

    Describes the dangers, symptoms of, and treatment for, fainting fits. Moves on to describe the symptoms of, and treatments for, 'Hysterics', a 'disease' which occurs 'for the most part in young, nervous, unmarried women', whose 'true' symptoms can easily be confused with 'false' ones. (255) Concludes with a list of antidotes to poisons.