CHEYNE, George (1671 – 1743)
1671 – 1743
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1720 CE
#4487
Observations concerning the nature and due method of treating the gout.
1733 CE
#4840
The English malady; or, a treatise of nervous diseases of all kinds.
Cheyne attributed hypochondria (“Cheyne’s disease”) to the moisture of the air and variability of the weather in the British Isles. Cheyne himself suffered from this disease and the work includes a c…