Read Flesh in the Age of Reason Online
Authors: Roy Porter
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matter, nature of
365
–6
matter/mind
30
–31
Mead, Richard
308
Medica sacra
(1749)
306
Measure for Measure
212
mechanical philosophy
83
–5
acceptance
60
–61
challenged
84
–9
Christianity and
93
matter/mind interaction
55
,
56
,
365
medicine/physick
doctors
231
;
see also
under name
first-aid
213
Hippocratic
45
–7
holistic
47
–9
traditional
49
melancholy
173
Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, The
(Swift, Pope et al.)
107
,
159
–66
body/mind dualism
164
–6
body/mind relationship
161
–2
diet/health regimen
160
–61
education
160
–61
identity/self
159
Michelangelo
245
Mill, James
360
Mill, John Stuart,
On Liberty
(1859)
3
Observations Concerning the Distinction of Ranks
(1771)
259
Milner, Isaac
27
Apocalypse
34
Paradise Lost
and
Paradise Regained
(1667; 1671)
18
,
21
,
41
–3,
387
,
388
,
470
Platonism
410
conscious
7
free will, and
472
healthy
124
–5
invention of
26
Locke on
147
secular spirituality
432
supremacy
135
,
140
,
399
,
472
–3,
474
Swift on
152
–153
Mirandola, Pico Della
273
–4
misogyny
269
–70
Mitchill, Samuel Latham
416
Mompesson family
89
Monboddo, Lord, James Burnett 467n,
468
Monro, John,
Remarks on Dr Battie’s Treatise on Madness
(1758)
314
Montagu, Elizabeth
263
Montaigne, Michel de
5
–6,
64
,
274
More, Henry
83
–4,
85
–6,
88
,
89
,
91
,
102
,
124
,
187
Antidote against Atheism, An
(1653)
87
Enchiridion Metaphysicum
(1671)
84
Immortality of the Soul, The
(1659)
87
More, Thomas,
Utopia
(1516)
396
Morgagni, Giovanni,
De Sedibus et Causis Morborum
(1761)
223
Mr Dissector
see
Addison & Steele
Mr Spectator
see
Addison & Steele
Muggletonians
22
Murray, John
460
natural magic
see
supernatural phenomena
necessity, doctrine of
366
Nelson, James
231
nemesis
30
Neoplatonism
see
Platonism/Neoplatonism
neurology, etymology
55
New Jerusalem
104
Newman, John Henry,
Dream of Gerontius
(1865)
473
afterlife
359
madness, model of
310
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
(1687)
365
Opticks
(1703)
350
philosophy/theology
348
,
365
,
366
,
423
,
434
and supernatural phenomena
91
,
92
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
6
,
11
,
15
nitrous oxide
415
–17
non-naturals
232
nous
33
novels
see
fiction/novels
Oedipus Complex
30
On the Nature of Man
(Hippocratic text)
46
Onania
234
onanism
see
masturbation
Opie, Amelia
282
Origen
36
Overton, Richard
82
Owen, Robert
Book of the New Moral World, The
(1836)
396
–7
communitarianism
394
early years
390
villages, model
391
–2
Oxford Movement
229
–30
oxygen
415
Panopticon
26
Patin, Gui
54
Pavilliard, Monsieur
196
Peacock, Thomas Love
Crotchet Castle
(1831)
345
–6,
466
Headlong Hall
(1816)
463
,
464
,
465
,
468
–9,
469
materialism
466
Nightmare Abbey
(1818)
406
,
464
–5,
466
satires
465
–8
spirit of 19th century
470
Penn, William
233
Perfect, William
314
Methods of Cure, in Some Particular Cases of Insanity
(1778)
313
Pericles
281
Perkins, William,
Of the Combat of the Flesh and Spirit
(1593)
38
Perreaud, François,
Devill of Mascon, The
92
Persian Tales, The
126
personal identity
see
identity/self
Petty, William
51
Pharisees
35
Philip, Algernon
410
Philo the Jew
35
Philosophical Transactions
(journal)
52
phrenology
468
–9
physiognomy
469
alternatives
254
–5
in literature
249
–50
pineal gland
24
,
86
,
115
,
161
,
162
,
169
,
365
,
372
Traité médico-philosophique sur l’aliénation mental ou la manie
(1801)
318
Platonism/Neoplatonism
28
,
29
,
30
,
63
,
65
,
66
,
80
,
85
,
90
,
130
,
136
,
147
influence
65
Timaeus
87
see also
Cambridge Platonists
Plotinus
29
Polidori, Dr
460
Pomponazzi, Pietro
90
Poole, Tom
405
Pope, Alexander
10
,
106
–7,
159
,
226
,
461
aesthetics
461
Essay on Man, An
(1733–4)
62
,
176
,
195
,
382
,
387
,
388
health
289
–90
Pordage, John
56
Porter, Lucy
174
self
273
postmodernism
15
predestination
83
press
see
print culture
Priestley, Joseph
8
,
24
,
98
,
348
,
366
,
375
attacked
413
Christian beliefs
363
–5,
365
,
376
,
378
,
419
,
453
Hartley’s Theory of the Human Mind
(1775)
360
History of Early Opinions Concerning Jesus Christ
(1786)
364
History of the Corruptions of Christianity
(1782)
364
influence
405
materialism
371
,
376
,
378
,
419
,
453
,
472
nitrous oxide
415
psychology
313
see also
indentity/self; man/human beings; soul
print culture
civilizing influence
113
–14,
281
–3,
464
knowledge, spread of
228
–9
triumph over pulpit
226
progress
26
philosophies of
345
–6
see also
man/human beings, perfectibility/ progress
prolongevism
see
longevism/prolongevism
body, discipline of
228
Christianity, rational
367
purgatory
82
theatre, dangers
272
Prozac
16
Prynne, William, ‘Soules Complaint, The’
39
psyche
see
mind/psyche
psychoactive drugs
16
invention of
365
repudiated
21