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Physical, Human and Divine attraction in the life and thought of George Cheyne

Pages 473-488 | Published online: 22 Aug 2006

  • 1938 . Paris
  • 1846 . Life of George Cheyne, M.D., with extracts from his works and correspondence Oxford (by W. A. Greenhill). T. McCrae, ‘George Cheyne, an old London and Bath physician (1671–1743)’, John Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, 1904, 15, 84–94. W. R. Riddell, ‘Dr. George Cheyne and the ‘English Malady”, Annals of Medical History, 1922, 4, 304–310. R. S. Siddall, ‘George Cheyne, M.D., eighteenth century clinician and medical author’, Annals of Medical History, 1942, (3) 4, 95–109. H. R. Viets, ‘George Cheyne, 1673 [sic]-1743’ (Fielding H. Garrison Lecture), Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1949, 23, 435–452. Viets's article is based on some original research and is the fullest account of Cheyne's life.
  • 1733 . The English malady, or a treatise of nervous diseases of all kinds, in three parts 325 – 352 . London etc.
  • 1938 . Viets 436 – 436 . Paris The entry occurs in the parish church of Methlick register. Viets admits that in the then unsettled political state of Scotland, a delay of two years between birth and baptism is possible.
  • Viets claims 438 – 438 . that Cheyne attended the University of Aberdeen for about three years, though there is no record of his graduation
  • 1733 . English malady 327 – 327 . London Cheyne obtained his M.D. from the University of Aberdeen in September 1701 (Viets, 441).
  • Viets 442 – 442 .
  • English malady , 327 – 327 .
  • English malady , 328 – 328 .
  • Arbuthnot , John . 1731 . An essay concerning the nature of aliments, and the choice of them, according to the different constitutions of human bodies Dublin [etc.] preface
  • Letter dated 12 December 1739, in The correspondence of Alexander Pope Sherburn George Oxford 1956 4 208 208 5 vol.
  • Letter dated 17 May 1740 in Pope's Correspondence 4 242 242
  • The letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield Dobree B. London 1932 2 494 494 6 vols. The work referred to is An Essay on regimen, together with five discourses, medical, moral, and philosophical: serving to illustrate the principles and theory of philosophical medicine and point out some of its moral consequences, London, 1740.
  • Mullet , C.F. , ed. 1943 . The letters of Dr. George Cheyne to Samuel Richardson (1733–43) Columbia (University of Missouri Studies 18, no. 1)
  • Mullet , C.F. , ed. 1940 . The letters of Dr. George Cheyne to the Countess of Huntingdon San Marino, Cal.
  • 1701 . Edinburgh 2nd ed., London, 1702.
  • London, 1703. Cheyne's mathematical capabilities were limited; David Gregory found no less than 429 errors in the work, and Abraham de Moivre wrote a critique, Animadversiones in G. Cheynaei tractatum de fluxionum methodo inversa, London, 1704. Its one claim to fame seems to have been that it inspired Newton to publish his de Quadratura in 1704. See David Gregory, Isaac Newton and their circle. Extracts from David Gregory's memoranda, 1677–1708 Hiscock W.G. Oxford 1937 15 24 25
  • 1705 . Philosophical principles of natural religion: containing the elements of natural philosophy, and the proofs of natural religion, arising from them London Jean Le Clerc reviewed the first edition of the work in his Bibliothèque ancienne et moderne. Pour servir de suite aux bibliothèques universelle et choisi, Amsterdam, 1715, vol. 3, pp. 41–157. N. Hartsoeker, who had access to the second edition, wrote a critique of the work in vol. 8 (1717) of Le Clerc's Bibliothèque, pp. 303–350.
  • See the article on Cheyne in the Dictionary of Natural Biography Viets 439 439 dates Cheyne's tuition of Ker as early as 1690
  • Mullet , C.F. , ed. 1733–43 . Letters to Richardson 8 – 8 . Columbia (University of Missouri Studies 18, no. 1) 1943
  • 1715 . Philosophical principles of religion, natural and revealed London [etc.] preface to part II
  • 1715 . Philosophical principles of religion, natural and revealed London [etc.] preface to part II
  • The appearance of Cheyne's last work. The natural method of cureing [sic] the diseases of the body, and the diseases of the mind depending on the body Letters to Richardson Mullet C.F. Columbia 1943 45 45 (University of Missouri Studies 18, no. 1)
  • 1720 . Observations concerning the nature and due method of treating the gout, for the use of my worthy friend Richard Tennison, Esq.; together with an account of the nature and qualities of the Bath waters London An essay on health and long life, London, 1724, I have used the 6th (Dublin) ed. of 1725.
  • Essay on health and long life 83 – 83 .
  • 1715 . Philosophical principles , 1715 ed. 47 – 47 . London part I
  • 1715 . Philosophical principles , 1715 ed. 47 – 47 . London part I
  • 1715 . Philosophical principles , 1715 ed. 50 – 50 . London part I
  • Essay on Health 83 – 84 .
  • Essay on Health 85 – 85 .
  • Essay on Regimen 138 – 138 . Plato used the model to explain gravity in Timaeus, 63C-E.
  • Essay on Regimen 217 – 217 .
  • Essay on Regimen 218 – 218 .
  • Questions regarding the ontological status of the Newtonian conception of force cannot be entered into here. For a general discussion see Heimann P.M. McGuire J.E. Newtonian forces and Lockean powers: concepts of matter in eighteenth century thought Historical studies in the physical sciences 1971 3 233 306
  • Philosophical principles , 1705 ed. 104 – 104 .
  • Philosophical principles , 1705 ed. 114 – 114 . 60
  • Philosophical principles , 1705 ed. 114 – 114 .
  • Philosophical principles , 1715 ed. 107 – 107 .
  • Philosophical principles , 1705 ed. 117 – 117 .
  • Philosophical principles , 1715 ed. 110 – 110 .
  • Philosophical principles , 1715 ed. 35 – 38 .
  • Philosophical principles , 1715 ed. 109 – 109 .
  • Observations concerning the gout 8 – 8 .
  • Observations concerning the gout 20 – 20 .
  • Essay on health 11 – 11 . 13
  • English malady 12 – 12 .
  • English malady 42 – 42 .
  • English malady 132 – 132 .
  • Essay on Regimen 94 – 94 .
  • Essay on Regimen 96 – 96 .
  • Essay on Regimen 102 – 102 .
  • Essay on Regimen 308 – 308 .
  • Natural method of cureing [sic] the disease of the body, and the diseases of the mind depending on the diseases of the mind depending on the body [etc.] in 1742 was preceded by four years of negotiation with the publishers. 26 – 26 . Compare James Keill, An account of animal secretion, the quantity of blood in the humane body, and muscular motion, London, 1708, passim.
  • Philosophical principles , 1715 ed. 46 – 46 . part II
  • Philosophical principles , 1715 ed. 47 – 47 . Part I
  • Philosophical principles , 1715 ed. 46 – 46 . Part II
  • Essay on Regimen 203 – 203 .
  • Essay on Regimen 10 – 10 .
  • Essay on Regimen 182 – 182 .
  • Essay on Regimen 21 – 21 .
  • Essay on Regimen 270 – 270 .
  • Essay on Regimen 22 – 23 .
  • Essay on Regimen 153 – 153 .
  • Natural method 79 – 79 .
  • Philosophical principles , 1715 ed. 42 – 42 . part I
  • Clarke , John . 1720 . An enquiry into the cause and origin of evil … being the substance of eight sermons preached … in the year 1719, at the lecture founded by the Hon. Robert Boyle, esq. London passim
  • Strother , Edward . 1725 . An Essay on sickness and health … in which Dr. Cheyne's mistaken opinions in his late essay, are occasionally taken notice of 430 – 430 . London
  • Reeves , William . 1729 . Fourteen sermons preach'd on several occasions 40 – 40 . London sermon II
  • Norris , John . 1687 . A Collection of miscellanies [etc.] 234 – 234 . Oxford
  • Essay on Regimen , 21 – 21 .

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