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 lasge ... George Cheyne.

  • Cheyne, George, 1671 or 1672-1743.
Date:
1733
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Credit: 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 lasge ... George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Wealth and Abundance of the In¬ habitants (from their univerfal ‘Trade) the Inactivity and ledentary Occupations of the better Sort (among 'whom this Evil mofly rages) and the Humour of living in great> populous and confe- quently unhealthy Towns, have brought forth a Clals and Set of Hifempers^ with atrocious and frightful Symptoms, fcarce known to our Ancejtors, and never riftng to fuch fatal Heights, nor affiihling fitch Numbers in any other known Na¬ tion. Thefe nervous hDifbrders being computed to make almojt one third of the of the ‘People of Condition in England. II. This Work has lainfinifld d by me, as it now appears {at leaf in the main) thefe feveral Tears paf, and was intended as a Legacy and Dying- Speech, only to my Fellow-Sufferers under thefe Complaints. And had certainly never appear'd {till its Au- ^ thor had difappeard) had it not been for the Perhaps indifcreet Zeal of