Flesh in the Age of Reason (99 page)

personal disciplines (diet etc.)
25
,
117
–29,
121
–2,
125
,
160
–61,
228
,
233
–4,
235
,
239

personality and
256

proportions
244
,
245

public disciplines
25
–6,
144
–6

signatures, doctrine of
245
–6

St Paul on
33
,
34
,
37
–8

stereotypes
239
–40

Swift on
151
–3

toughening
231
–2

vilification
24
,
227
,
471

vital economy
234
–6

wasting/wasting sicknesses
233
–4

worship of
243

body/mind dualism
28
–9,
168
–9,
434

and Siamese twins
164
–6

Cartesian
7
,
66
–8,
83

Christian
18
,
35
,
36
–7,
38
,
80

mortal/immortal
470

problem of
141
–2

body/mind relationship
3
,
24
,
86
–7,
141
–2,
161
–2,
166
,
399
,
473

Classical medicine
48

cooperation
38
–41,
120

demystified
365

ideas, association of
351
–3

and infirmities
380

Johnson on
168
–9,
188
–9

literary exploration
286

materialist model
366

mechanical model
351

mind, supremacy of
199
,
380
,
424
,
425
–6,
427
–8,
429

tensions
151

body/soul dualism
see
body/mind dualism

Boehme, Jakob
238
,
434

Boerhaave, Hermann
54

Cartesianism
308

on the nervous system
309
,
351

Bolton, Robert
28

Boothby, Brooke
377

Borelli, Giovanni
53

De Motu Animalum
(1680)
52

Borlase, John Bingham
415

Boswell, James
107
–108,
172
,
174
,
179
,
180
,
184
,
185
,
186

confession/self-revelation
190

death, fear of
191
,
192

depression
192
–3

hypochondria
317

Hypochondriack, The
(newspaper column)
192

Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides
(1785)
187

Life of Samuel Johnson, The
(1791)
168
,
461

lifestyle
190
–91,
271

role models/self-invention
191
–2,
281

Boulton, Matthew
375

Bovet, Richard,
Pandaemonium
(1684)
89

Boyle, Robert
51
,
52
,
55
,
84
,
87
,
89
–93,
187

Christian Virtuoso, The
(1690–91)
90

sacred anatomy
228

and supernatural phenomena
90
,
91
–3

Boyle’s Law
91

Bradwell, Stephen,
Helps for Suddain Accidents
(1633)
213

Brindley, James
377

Brown, John
235
,
378
–9

Browne, Thomas
93
,
362

Brunonianism
378
–9
,
379
,
412

Brunton, Mary
282

Buchan, William,
Domestic Medicine
(1769)
213
–14

Budgell, Eustace
225

Bull, John (England)
234

Bunyan, John

Grace Abounding
(1666)
21
,
276
–7

Pilgrim’s Progress, The
(1666)
35
,
276

Burckhardt, Jacob
4

Burke, Edmund
26
,
357
,
433

Reflections on the Revolution in France
(1790)
266

Burnet, Gilbert
92

Burnet, Thomas
102
–3

Burney, Fanny
174
,
175
,
178

journal
257
–8

Burton, John
292

Treatise on the Non-Naturals
(1738)
230

Burton, Robert,
Anatomy of Melancholy, The
(1621)
133
,
183
,
203

Butler, Joseph
347
,
349
,
370

Byron, Lord, George Gordon
121
,
242

image/self-image
453
–5,
456
–8,
461

philosophy
453
–4,
458
–60,
461

writings
453
,
458
,
460

Cadogan, William
202
,
203
,
239

Calamy, Edmund
81

Calvin, John
6

Calvinism/Calvinists
18
,
83
,
87
,
103
,
130
,
137
,
138
,
156
,
361
;
see also
Puritans/Puritanism

afterlife
100

death
212

on physical health
229

predestination
366

Cambridge Platonists
29
,
84
,
90
,
103
,
104
,
131

236
;
see also
Platonism/NeoPlatonism

Cartesianism
69
–70

God, concept of
140

human nature
137

idealism
84
–5

Camisards/French Prophets
139

Carlyle, Thomas, ‘Signs of the Times’ (1829)
374

Carter, Elizabeth
264

Cartesianism
11
,
23
–4,
83
–4

challenged
85
,
366

physiognomy and
249

Cathars
20

Catholic Church/Catholicism
4
,
18
,
20
,
21
,
80
,
81
,
156
,
361

and the body
228

immortal soul
97

Cato
225

censorship
22
,
113

Cervantes, Miguel de
282

Chambers’
Cyclopaedia
(1727)
371

Charles I, King of England
113

Charles II, King of England
52
,
92

Chateaubriand, (François) René
10

Chatterton, Thomas
226

chemistry
414
–15

therapeutic gases
415
–17

Chesterfield, Lord, Philip Dormer Stanhope
25
,
173
–4,
176
,
251

manners & morals
255

sexism
266

Cheyne, George
203
,
232
,
237
–9,
242

addiction, theory of
399
–400

English Malady, The
(1733)
238
,
309

health regimen
426

on madness
316
–17

opiates, use of
403

Chiarugi, Vincenzo,
Della Pazzia
(1793–4)
317

chiliasm/millenarianism
34

Christian Platonists
see
Christianity, Platonism/Neoplatonism Christianity
18
,
33
–4

appeal
20

Biblical sources
19
,
33
–4

Classical sources
32
,
33
,
36
,
37
,
102
,
238

confession
273
,
274

controversy
21
–2,
23
,
363

marginalized
21
,
108
–9,
147
,
464

martyrs
6

master-narrative
273

materialism
432

muscular
229
–30

naturalized
66

Original Sin
4
,
36
–7

Platonism/Neoplatonism
32

questioned
20

rationalist
362
–3

reinforced
470

signatures, doctrine of
245
–6

Trinitarianism
361
–2

Cicero
131

Civil Wars
22
,
81
,
130

aftermath
82

Clarke, Samuel
370

afterlife
359

soul
162
,
163
,
426

Classical Greece

cosmology
28
–9

drama
30

human condition
31

man, concept of
29
,
30
,
49

physiognomy
469

rational man
30

Cleland, John,
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
(1748–9)
281

Clive, Robert
403

Clubbe, John
253
,
254

Coke, Lady Mary
232

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
10
,
11
,
62
,
283

Christian Platonism
405
–6,
409
–10,
410
–12

drug addiction
403
,
404
,
406
–9,
417
–18

influences
405

nitrous oxide
417

political activism
413
–14

Religious Musings
(1794)
395
,
405

satirized
464

Collier, Jeremy
169

Collins, Anthony
134
,
164
,
347
,
366
,
369

soul
162
,
163

Colman, George
282

Coloreda, Lazarus & Baptista, John (Siamese twins)
107

Commonwealth (1642–60)
22
,
81

Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de
8

Condorcet, Marie Jean, Marquise de
8
,
430

confession 193;
see also
fiction/novels

Congregationalists
22

Congreve, William
257

conscious mind
see
identity/self

constipation
235

consumerism
399

Conwell, Anne, Lady
89
,
236

Cook, James
259

Cornaro, Luigi
153
,
235

Discourse on the Temperate Life
(1550)
118

health regimen
426

cosmetics/make-up
252
–3

Coverly, Roger de
120
–21