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Definition of Hypochondriacs
1. hypochondriac [n] - See also: hypochondriac
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypochondriacs
Literary usage of Hypochondriacs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theory and practice of medicine by Frederick Thomas Roberts (1884)
"The main point in treating hypochondriacs is for the practitioner to try ...
As to medicines, something has generally to be administered to hypochondriacs, ..."
2. A Text-book of practical medicine, with particular reference to physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"All persons who are possessed by the idea that they are sick, however, are not
to be regarded as hypochondriacs, but only those in whom such an impression ..."
3. The Spas of Germany by Augustus Bozzi Granville (1838)
"... hypochondriacs—Their number at Carlsbad— Biliary and other calculi—IMMEDIATE
EFFECTS of the water—Erroneous notions— Effects on the author—Mob at the ..."
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