Hysteria.- Jorden (Edward) A Briefe Discourse of a Disease called the Suffocation of the Mother, first edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut decorations and initials, a few headlines shaved, lacking final leaf H2 (?blank), later mottled calf, gilt device on covers, [STC 14790], Krivatsy 6275], small 4to, Printed by John Windet, 1603.

⁂ The first book in English on hysteria, published within a month of the London edition of King James' Daemonologie as an attempt to reclaim the demoniacally possessed for medicine. "Jorden introduced into English medicine the ancient concept of hysteria as a disease entity with specific etiology, a sex-linked nervous disorder, the potential imitator of all ills. Its subsequent career forms an important chapter in the history of psychiatry." (Hunter & Macalpine, Psychiatry pp.69-73). Not in Wellcome; the Norman copy in 1998 fetched $3800.