Letter 0846

Cheyne gives Sloane Craig’s ‘Mathematical Paper’ for the Philosophical Transactions. He stresses that it must be printed precisely as ordered. Cheyne asks Sloane to allow nothing to be printed against him or his book without forewarning. George Cheyne was a physician and published many books on philosophical and health-related topics. He promoted taking the waters at Bath and his popular treatise ‘An Essay of Health and Long Life’ (1724) served as a guide to good living. He suffered from extreme obesity, at one point weighing roughly 448 pounds (Anita Guerrini, Cheyne, George (1671/21743), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5258, accessed 5 July 2013]).