[Rarebooks] FS: Cheyne's ESSAY OF HEALTH AND LONG LIFE, 1725, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced!   WAS  $750.00    NOW  $500.00

CHEYNE, George. AN ESSAY OF HEALTH AND LONG LIFE. London: G. Strahan, 
1725. Second Edition. Blindstamped paneled calf; xx [24] 232 pages. 
Chapters on proper diet, exercise, sleeping, etc. Aimed at the lay 
reader, much of Cheyne's advice was based upon his own hypochondria and 
continual struggle with obesity--at one time he weighed over 440 pounds. 
In another work Cheyne described his hypochondria, which he blamed on 
the English weather, and estimated that a third of his patients were 
neurotic. Bitting (p. 86) cites only the 1727 French edition, noting it 
as rare. Crahan 268; Heirs of Hippocrates 761; Osler 2303; Wellcome II, 
p. 338. Modern bookplate of Nellie Madeleine Brown, M.D. on front 
endpaper; spine label partly present. Some rubbing and edgewear, short 
splits in joints. Nice copy. 		$500.00

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