book and constantly wanting to be a part of the process. Your enthusiasm as I trudged through archives, and thirst for the stories I uncovered, has made the process all the sweeter. It is hard to believe that you are the same age as the project and watching you grow up as the book did has been incredibly special.

The encouragement and assistance I have received from other academics and friends has been invaluable, both to my development as a scholar as well as to _Consumptive Chic_. To my current and former colleagues and wonderful friends, thank you for your constant advice and support as I navigated academic life and the ins and outs of publishing. Special thanks must go to Dr. Mark Smith for your championing of awere rich in nerves, including the muscles and skin, also possessed an increased degree of sensibility. Haller classified the "reactive" quality of both the nerves and the muscles, or their ability to respond to outside stimuli, as "irritability." In 1752, Haller published the results of his experiments, which influenced the work of leading Scottish anatomists, like William Cullen, and helped force a key shift in medical theory.

William Cullen's work had a significant impact on the popularity of socio-psychological explanations of disease in England and was part of an extensive movement that pushed for the dominance of the nervous system in the explanations of disease. His work rested upon a patho-physiological approach to the mechanisms and processes of disease—which he believed were controlled by the nervous system. Cullen construed