Paper, 'Hasce suas de nostalgia Helvetica nationis morbo meditationes sacras vult' by Johannes Jacobus Scheuchzerus [Johann Jakob Scheuchzer]

Reference number: CLP/14i/62

Date: 1707

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Scheuchzer describes a metal illness that he has observed in Sweden called 'nostalgia'.

Subject: Medicine

Read to the Royal Society on 17 March 1707.

Reference number: CLP/14i/62
Earliest possible date: 1707
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 18 pages
Format: Manuscript

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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Paper, 'Hasce suas de nostalgia Helvetica nationis morbo meditationes sacras vult' by Johannes Jacobus Scheuchzerus [Johann Jakob Scheuchzer], 1707, CLP/14i/62, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14i_62/paper-hasce-suas-de-nostalgia-helvetica-nationis-morbo-meditationes-sacras-vult-by-johannes-jacobus-scheuchzerus-johann-jakob-scheuchzer, accessed on 11 June 2026

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Account of a disease common in Switzerland called 'nostalgia' by John Jacob Scheuchzer
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Classified papers of the Royal Society
1660-1741 Reference number: CLP
Classified papers: volume 14i concerning 'Physick'
1665-1709 Reference number: CLP/14i

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Dates: 1592 - 1741

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