[Ads-l] Antedating of "Nymphomaniac"

[Shapiro, Fred]

nymphomaniac (OED 1867 [noun], 1900 [adj.])

1844 _American Journal of the Medical Sciences_ Jan. (American Periodical Series)  Albert cites the case of a nymphomaniac patient at St. Louis, whom he cured by a drachm of camphor at a dose; and Esquirol has successfully treated hysteric nymphomaniacs with the same remedy.

Fred Shapiro

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