Authority Cited: Cheyne
Author name and dates: George Cheyne (1671-1748)
BKG Bio-tweet: Eminent Scotch physician; practiced at Bath & London; medical author; proto-psychologist, philosopher, mathematician
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 123 Cheyne cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 122 Cheyne cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2 (232 total per Atkinson, 1953 N&Q). Two Cheyne cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 124 . . .Cheyne's English Malady &c.]
Author name and dates: George Cheyne (1671-1748)
BKG Bio-tweet: Eminent Scotch physician; practiced at Bath & London; medical author; proto-psychologist, philosopher, mathematician
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 123 Cheyne cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 122 Cheyne cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2 (232 total per Atkinson, 1953 N&Q). Two Cheyne cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 124 . . .Cheyne's English Malady &c.]
- Philosophical principles of religion. Natural and revealed. In two parts. Part I. Containing the Elements of Natural Philosophy, and the Proofs of Natural Religion arising from them. Part II. Containing the Nature and Kinds of Infinites, their Arithmetic and Uses; together with the Philosophic Principles of Revealed Religion. By George Cheyne, M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society, the Fifth Edition, Corrected, 1736, London : printed for George Strahan, at the Golden Ball in Cornhill, over against the Royal Exchange; (4th ed. London, 1734 consulted by Wimsatt, Philosophic Words); 1st. ed.: Part I, 1705, Part II, 1715 [BKG Note: edition SJ used not determined; the 5th edition was within the author's lifetime]; action; actuality; adaptation; catenarian; cohere; exquisite; frigid; lachrymal; perennial (per Wimsatt); suffocation (per Wimsatt); valitudinarian/valetudinary; wind; wright.
- The natural method of cureing the diseases of the body, and the disorders of the mind depending on the body. In three parts. Part I. General Reflections on the Oeconomy of Nature in Animal Life. Part II. The Means and Methods for preserving Life and Faculties; and also concerning the Nature and Cure of Acute, Contagious, and Cephalic Disorders. Part III. Reflections on the Nature and Cure of particular Chronical Distempers. By Geo. Cheyne, M.D.R.C. Ed. and R.S.S., the Third Edition, 1742, London: Printed for Geo. Strahan, at the Golden Ball in Cornhill, and John and Paul Knapton, at the Crown in Ludgate-Street; nervous (cited as Cheney) [BKG Note: Thanks to Prof. Beth Rapp Young (2024) for identifying this citation and title.]
- An essay of health and long life. By George Cheyne, M. D. F. R. S., 1724, London: printed for George Strahan, at the Golden Ball over-against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill; and J. Leake, bookseller at Bath; physically (cited as Cheney)
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