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Dr. George Cheyne, Chevalier Ramsay, and Hume's Letter to a Physician

Dr. George Cheyne, Chevalier Ramsay, and Hume's Letter to a Physician Dr. George Cheyne, Chevalier Ramsay, and Hume's Letter to a Physician John P. Wright Hume Studies, Volume 29, Number 1, April 2003, pp. 125-141 (Article) Published by Hume Society DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0100 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/382999/summary Access provided at 17 Feb 2020 18:15 GMT from JHU Libraries Hume Studies Volume 29, Number 1, April 2003, pp. 125-141 Dr. George Cheyne, Chevalier Ramsay, and Hume's Letter to a Physician JOHN P. WRIGHT The publication of a new intellectual biography of George Cheyne1 provides a "propitious" occasion for "a thoroughly skeptical review"2 of the question which has long exercised Hume scholars, whether Cheyne was the intended recipient of David Hume's fascinating pie-Treatise Letter to a Physician,3 the letter which describes his own hypochondriacal physical and mental symp- toms and gives an account of his early philosophical development.4 Hume's nineteenth-century biographer, John Hill Burton, argued that Hume was probably writing to Cheyne,5 while Ernest Mossner claimed to definitively refute that hypothesis in an article entitled "Hume's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot," published in 1944.6 Anita Guerrini's intellectual biography does not discuss Cheyne as a possible recipient of Hume's letter, but she does present a well-rounded picture of this interesting eighteenth-century physi- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hume Studies Hume Society

Dr. George Cheyne, Chevalier Ramsay, and Hume's Letter to a Physician

Wright, John P.
Hume Studies , Volume 29 (1) – Jan 26, 2011
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Dr. George Cheyne, Chevalier Ramsay, and Hume's Letter to a Physician John P. Wright Hume Studies, Volume 29, Number 1, April 2003, pp. 125-141 (Article) Published by Hume Society DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0100 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/382999/summary Access provided at 17 Feb 2020 18:15 GMT from JHU Libraries Hume Studies Volume 29, Number 1, April 2003, pp. 125-141 Dr. George Cheyne, Chevalier Ramsay, and Hume's Letter to a Physician JOHN P. WRIGHT The publication of a new intellectual biography of George Cheyne1 provides a "propitious" occasion for "a thoroughly skeptical review"2 of the question which has long exercised Hume scholars, whether Cheyne was the intended recipient of David Hume's fascinating pie-Treatise Letter to a Physician,3 the letter which describes his own hypochondriacal physical and mental symp- toms and gives an account of his early philosophical development.4 Hume's nineteenth-century biographer, John Hill Burton, argued that Hume was probably writing to Cheyne,5 while Ernest Mossner claimed to definitively refute that hypothesis in an article entitled "Hume's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot," published in 1944.6 Anita Guerrini's intellectual biography does not discuss Cheyne as a possible recipient of Hume's letter, but she does present a well-rounded picture of this interesting eighteenth-century physi-

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