Download or read book George Cheyne written by George Cheyne and published by . This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though an important figure, Cheyne has been little studied. No scholarly reprint exists of his major thematic work, The English Malady. This edition, originally published in 1991 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series, prefaced by a substantial introduction by Roy Porter, aims to contextualize the work in respect of eighteenth-century medicine, culture and society.