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CHEYNE, GEORGE. The English Malady; or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of All Kinds, as Spleen, Vapours, Lowness of Spirits, Hypochondriacal, & Hysterical Distempers, &c. [6], xxxii, [2], 370, [6] pages, including 3 integral ad leaves at end. 8vo, 197x124 mm, modern brown calf; occasional toning and soiling, minor stains on preliminaries, title chipped along edges and silked. London & Bath: G. Strahan & J. Leake, 1733
first edition of a treatise on depression, which Cheyne linked to climate, diet, habits, and living conditions in England, describing his own case as a clinical illustration. Garrison-Morton 4840; Heirs of Hippocrates 762; Hunter & Macalpine, pages 351-54; Norman 471; Rieber & Gach 91 ("one of the great first-person accounts of psychopathological disorder").
