title: John Cheyne's classic monographs.
abstract: John Cheyne (1777-1836), a Scotsman born in Leith, graduated at Edinburgh University but spent most of his career in Dublin. He was professor of medicine (1813-19) at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, physician to the House of Industry Hospitals and co-founder of the Dublin Hospital Reports in which his celebrated account of a patient with irregular breathing was described in 1818. His Essay on hydrocephalus acutus (1808) and Cases of apoplexy and lethargy (1812), important nineteenth-century contributions to neuropathology are considered here in detail. Towards the end of his life he was afflicted by depression and his posthumously-published Essays on the partial derangement of the mind (1843) was written as a therapeutic exercise.
authors.affiliation: Department of the History of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Lyons
mesh_terms: D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000266:history*; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom