Though firmly embedded in the particulars of the 18th century, the story Fea tells has resonance today. That is one of the many reasons I so love this book—Fithian's problem is no less acute today for men and women whose education takes them geographically and imaginatively beyond their loca...
(seeFigure 1), which caused the soul to have distorted ideas about the body [7]. Even if these diseases used to have different terms two centuries ago, he probably meant, for example, bulimia, nymphomania, cravings, delusional beliefs about bodily dysfunction or metamorphosis, hysteria and ...