Cheyne, George, a physician and medical writer, born in Aberdeenshire, in practice in London; suffered from corpulency, being 32 stone in weight, but kept it down by vegetable and milk diet, which he recommended to others in the like case; wrote on fevers, nervous disorders, and hygiene; wrote also on fluxions (1671‒1743).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cheyenne Indians * Cheyne, Thomas Kelly