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had poor health. She was handicapped by a crooked spine (not unlike Pope
). She became a devotee of the vegetarian regimes of Dr George Cheyne
, and may even have been anorexic.
Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 33-49.
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1733: The physician George Cheyne published his...
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1733
The physician George Cheyne
published his treatise on spleen, vapours, or what today is called depression, under the title of The English Malady.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.