Life of George Cheyne, M.D., with extracts from his works and correspondence / [Anon].

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1846
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Credit: Life of George Cheyne, M.D., with extracts from his works and correspondence / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Tus present little book forms part of a series of Christian Medical Biographies, which it is pro- posed to publish, and of which some account is given in the accompanying Prospectus. There is nothing new in the following pages, as, though enquiries were made in several quarters, no particulars of Dr. Cheyne’s history could be discovered, besides what has been already laid be- fore the public. The chief sources of information therefore are Dr. Cheyne’s own writings, (especially what he calls ‘“‘ The Author’s Case” at the end of his English Malady,) and the life in the Biographia Britannica*. : J. a A little book was published immediately after his death, en- titled “Dr. Cheyne’s Account of Himself and of his Writings: faithfully extracted from his various Works,” (London, 8vo. 1743. pp. 63.) which reached a second edition in the same year. It con- tains passages relating to his personal history, taken from ‘ The Author’s Case,” and from the prefaces to his Essay of Health, and his subsequent works ; together with medical extracts from his writings, verses written on occasion of his death, his character, (&e, &e,