Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 765

GEORGE CHEYNE (1673-1743) Méthode naturelle de guérir les maladies du corps et les déréglemens de l'espirit qui en dépendent. Chez J. F. Quillau, fils 1749 Vol. I: cxviii, 365 [3] pp.; Vol. II: 448 [6] pp. 16.2 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 761

This first French edition of Cheyne's popular book was translated by the Abbé de la Chapelle (1710-1792). Chapelle was a French mathematician who eventually became royal censor and was also a fellow of the Royal Society. On the verso of the half-title page of Volume II, Chapelle has inscribed the book to Gilles Bertrand Pibrae (1693-1771), director of the Académie Royale de Chirurgie de Paris.

Cited references: Wellcome II, p. 339

Gift of Hans L. Ehrenhaft, M.D