A Melancholy Laugh
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Disease, Crime, Taxonomy, Expertise, Medical Practitioners, Charlatanry |
People mentioned: | William Cullen |
Responding to news that a medical witness (Dr Baller) failed to distinguish between melancholia and melancholy, suggests a proper scientific definition of melancholia, as distinguished from melancholy. |
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