The confessional ... An analysis of the causes and cure of melancholy, nervousness, mental and physical debility, arising from ill health, worldly anxiety ... To which is added an essay on corpulency-obesity ... A sketch of choice in marriage, phrenologically considered ... and a few comments on drunkenness / [Robert James Culverwell].

Robert James Culverwell · 1841 · London : Sherwood, 1841. · 22 pictures

A medical and self-help treatise published in London in 1841 by Robert James Culverwell, covering melancholy, nervousness, corpulence, phrenology and drunkenness for a general reading public. The four plates are crude period engravings: a stout gentleman in a top hat and tailcoat, a head chart numbering phrenological organs, a round-faced boy in a ruffled collar, and a reclining sleeper on a scrolled couch. A designer might take from them the hatched line style of 1840s caricature and the diagrammatic labelling of the phrenology plate.

Depression · Anxiety · Phrenology

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