num_pages: 1250
description: Thomas Beddoes was one of the key scientific and medical figures of the Romantic era. Published in 1802 and long considered one of the first medical self-help manuals, Hygëia was a very important text for middle-class readers in its day. Topics covered include habitual sickness, premature mortality, exercise, consumption, hysteria, and self-medication.
language: English
title: Hygeia: or Essays Moral and Medical on the Cause affecting the Personal State of our Middling and Affluent Classes
titlecomplete: Hygeia: or Essays Moral and Medical on the Cause affecting the Personal State of our Middling and Affluent Classes
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Thoemmes Continuum