Article ID: CBB000082111

“Pamela's library”: Samuel Richardson and Dr. Cheyne's “universal cure” (1999)

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Description “Over eighty of Cheyne's letters to Richardson dating from the decade prior to Cheyne's death in 1743 were copied at Richardson's instruction into an extant notebook; and although only three of Richardson's draft responses survive, this correspondence is intrinsically valuable not only for what is revealed about diagnosis and treatment, but as a record of the commercial context of early Georgian medical authorship, providing an entire pre-publication history of Cheyne's last two works, An essay on regimen: Together with five discourses, medical, moral and philosophical (1740) and The natural method of cureing the diseases of the body, and the disorders of the mind depending on the body (1742)”


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Authors & Contributors
Guerrini, Anita
Wild, Wayne
Molina-Betancur, Sebastián
Godel, Rainer
Wall, Cynthia
Vickers, Neil
Journals
Gesnerus
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Journal of the History of Ideas
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Eighteenth-Century Life
Publishers
Rodopi
University of Oklahoma Press
University of Chicago Press
Brandeis University
Brown University
Concepts
Medicine
Depression
Science and literature
Nutrition; dietetics
Mental disorders and diseases
Physicians; doctors
People
Cheyne, George
Richardson, Samuel
Cullen, William
Jurin, James
Mandeville, Bernard de
Haller, Albrecht von
Time Periods
18th century
Enlightenment
19th century
17th century
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
Scotland
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