The Cullen Project | People [PERS ID:1815]

People [PERS ID:1815]

Field	Data
ID	1815
Title	Dr
First Name	George
Middle Name/Initial(s)
Last Name	Cheyne
Maiden Name
AKA
Gender	Male
Occupation	Physician
Medical Professional?	Medical Professional

Birth/Death

Birth/Death
Birth (year)	1671
Date of death (year)	1743

Notes


Famously celebrity physician from Methlick, Aberdeenshire. Practiced at Bath where he specialised in "nervous" disorders. He promoted 'light' semi-vegetarian diets amongst the rich and famous of Hanoverian Britain. Cheyne, a 'whimsical', but popular figure, was the most successful medical author of the early eighteenth-century whose works include An Essay on Health and Long Life (1724, and much reprinted) and The English Malady (1733), a patriotic study of nervous disorders. , which he attributed to a modern consumer lifestyle marked by lack of exercise, heavy, meat-rich diets and stuffy city rooms. The latter contains his influential 'The Authors' Own Case at Large', and autobiographical account of his own struggles with ill-health and obesity, Mentioned in Cullen's directions to Mr Burnett: '...particularly your suppers should be light & little. I don't say with Dr Cheyne the lightest & the least'.

Famously celebrity physician from Methlick, Aberdeenshire. Practiced at Bath where he specialised in "nervous" disorders. He promoted 'light' semi-vegetarian diets amongst the rich and famous of Hanoverian Britain. Cheyne, a 'whimsical', but popular figure, was the most successful medical author of the early eighteenth-century whose works include An Essay on Health and Long Life (1724, and much reprinted) and The English Malady (1733), a patriotic study of nervous disorders. , which he attributed to a modern consumer lifestyle marked by lack of exercise, heavy, meat-rich diets and stuffy city rooms. The latter contains his influential 'The Authors' Own Case at Large', and autobiographical account of his own struggles with ill-health and obesity, Mentioned in Cullen's directions to Mr Burnett: '...particularly your suppers should be light & little. I don't say with Dr Cheyne the lightest & the least'.

Cases that this person appears in:

Count	Case ID	Case Name
1	Case 581	Case of W. Burnett suffering from incontinency of urine while sleeping.
2	Case 1076	Case of 'J. C.', a 22 year old male student who suffers a range of distressing symptoms which he fears are signs of hypochodria brought on by intense study. Circumstances closely match those of James Currie.
3	Case 1511	Case of the second son of Antonio Marchionne, who is suffering from epilepsy, as reported by William Batt.
4	Case 2107	Case of an unnamed clergyman troubled with passing sand in his urine, a stranguary, then Priapism.
5	Case 2206	Case of Mr Spalding who has an 'effection of the lungs'.
6	Case 2558	Case of Antonio Marchionne 'of a noble Genoese family', sent alongside directions for his epileptic son.