Cheyne

Cheyne, GEORGE, physician, was born in 1671 at Methlick, in Aberdeenshire, and, after studying at Edinburgh under Pitcairn, started a London practice in 1702, in which year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Full living made him enormously fat (thirty-two stone weight), as well as asthmatic, but from a strict adherence to a milk and vegetable diet he derived so much benefit that he recommended it in all the later of his dozen medical treatises, which included A New Theory of Fevers (1701); Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion (1705); Essay of Health and Long Life (1725), and The English Malady, a Treatise on Nervous Disorders (1733). Cheyne died at Bath, 13th April 1743.