Essays on partial derangement of the mind in supposed connexion with religion.

  • Cheyne, John, 1777-1836.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Essays on partial derangement of the mind in supposed connexion with religion. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. A succinct account, such as I am about to give, of the life of a physician who, without much literary or general scientific information, attained confidence and consideration, may suggest useful hints to the junior members of the medical profession to whom it is addressed. The particulars of my birth, parentage, and education may soon be told. I was born on the third of February, 1777, in Leith, where my father, John Cheyne, practised medicine and surgery. He was a man of great cheerfulness, benevolence, good sense, and single- ness of mind. He would visit the poor as promptly as the rich, and his half-crown was as freely given to those who had no means of procuring food, as his prescription. B