Dr. Ashley Bowen will discuss her research into Dr. Jacob Mendes Da Costa’s work with a “peculiar functional disorder” he called irritable heart.
by David Price
Ashley Bowen
Learn how the Pension Office forced women to fight for survival after the Civil War.
When Dr. Foster diagnosed Tom with irritable heart, did he essentially diagnose him with the Civil War’s equivalent of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? Not exactly.
Learn more about the doctor that diagnosed “irritable heart.”
Ashley Bowen shares the history of irritable heart, a brand new diagnosis in 1862.
