pseudobydrophobia

Updated: June 28, 2025

In Berillon's case the patient was an artist, a woman of brunet complexion, who for six years had been tormented with the fear of becoming mad, and in whom the symptoms became so intense as to constitute pseudobydrophobia. At their subsidence she was the victim of numerous hallucinations which almost drove her to the point of suicide.

George M. (George Milbrey) Gould - Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine