Antedating of "Nymphomania"

[Fred Shapiro]

nymphomania (OED3 1775)

1702 Steven Blankaart _The Physical Dictionary_ 218 (Eighteenth Century
Collections Online)  _Nymphomania_, the same that _Furor Uterimes_.

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