[Rarebooks] F/S 1734 Cheyne The English Malady owned by a Privateer Captain

[Garry R Austin]

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Cheyne, George. The English Malady: Or A Treatise Of Nervous Diseases Of 
All Kinds; As Spleen, Vapours, Lowness Of Spirits, Hypochondriacal, And 
Hysterical Distempers, &c. In Three Parts. Part I. Of The Nature And 
Cause Of Nervous Distempers. Part II. Of The Cure Of Nervous Distempers. 
Part III. Variety Of Cases That Illustrate And Confirm The Method Of 
Cure. With the Author's Own Case At Large. London & Bath: G. Strahan, 
and J. Leake, 1734. Second Edition. Octavo; pp; xxxii, (ii), 370, (6), 
catalogue of medical books; full leather with a leather spine label 
lettered in gilt;

Note condition; front board detached but present, binding is worn; lacks 
preliminary leaves; textually complete.

"By "the English Malady" Cheyne meant hypochondria or what was later 
known as "neurrasthenia". In this quite fascinating book, Cheyne 
describes his own case supposed to be due to the vagaries of English 
weather. He estimated that a third of all his patients were neurotic." 
Heirs of Hippocrates #482 Cushing C210, Garrison Morton 4840, Osler 
2304, Waller 1950, Wellcome II; p339.

This copy belonged to Gamaliel Bradford in 1819 and is signed and dated 
by him; this is the Revolutionary War veteran of Saratoga & Monmouth who 
gained fame as a Privateer in the Quasi-War With France.


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