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Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment The Life and Times of George Cheyne
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Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment The Life and Times of George Cheyne (Series for Science and Culture) Paperback - 1999

by Guerrini, Anita


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Medical doctor George Cheyne, little known today, was among the most quoted men in eighteenth-century Britain. A 450-pound behemoth renowned for his Falstaffian appetites, he nevertheless advocated moderation to his neurotic clientele. Cheyne was an early admirer of Isaac Newton and a writer on mathematics and natural philosophy, yet he also linked science and mysticism in his writings. This inventor of the all-lettuce diet was both an author of learned tomes and, to his patients, a fellow sufferer who struggled with obesity and depression.

Scientist and mystic, patient and healer, libertine and scholar, Cheyne embodies the contradictions and obsessions of the Age of Enlightenment. Anita Guerrini reconstructs the ideas, events, and interconnections in Cheyne's era and shows how Cheyne's life and work uniquely epitomize the transition between premodern and modern culture.

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In the early years of the eighteenth century, Britain was rife with prophets and millennial predictions.

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  • Title Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment The Life and Times of George Cheyne (Series for Science and Culture)
  • Author Guerrini, Anita
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st edition.
  • Pages 283
  • Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, NORMAN, OK
  • Date December 1999
  • ISBN 9780806132013
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