Flesh in the Age of Reason (103 page)

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

humours/humoral theory
46
–7,
60

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

Methodists/Methodism
229
,
306

Michelangelo
245

Mill, James
360

Mill, John Stuart,
On Liberty
(1859)
3

Millar, John
260
,
261

Observations Concerning the Distinction of Ranks
(1771)
259

on women
267
,
268

Milner, Isaac
27

Milton, John
82
,
196

Apocalypse
34

Paradise Lost
and
Paradise Regained
(1667; 1671)
18
,
21
,
41
–3,
387
,
388
,
470

Platonism
410

mind/psyche
29
,
30
,
472

conscious
7

free will, and
472

healthy
124
–5

invention of
26

Locke on
147

science of
9
,
307
,
343
–5,
372
–3

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

Newton, Isaac
51
,
240

afterlife
359

critics
365
–6,
406
,
435

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

Ockham’s razor
365
,
376

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

man, perfectibility
393
–4,
471

philosophy
393
,
394
,
396

villages, model
391
–2

Oxford Movement
229
–30

oxygen
415

Panopticon
26

Paracelsus
53
,
56

Pargeter, William
305
,
315

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

Melincourt
(1817)
464
,
466
–8

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

Petrarch
273
,
410

Petty, William
51

Phaedo
31
,
32

Pharisees
35

Philip, Algernon
410

Philo the Jew
35

Philosophical Transactions
(journal)
52

phrenology
468
–9

physiognomy
469

alternatives
254
–5

doctrines
247
,
255
–6

in literature
249
–50

undermined
253
–4,
255

pineal gland
24
,
86
,
115
,
161
,
162
,
169
,
365
,
372

Pinel, Philippe
313
,
317
–18

Traité médico-philosophique sur l’aliénation mental ou la manie
(1801)
318

Pitcairn, Archibald
308
,
309

Platonism/Neoplatonism
28
,
29
,
30
,
63
,
65
,
66
,
80
,
85
,
90
,
130
,
136
,
147

influence
65

Phaedrus
31
,
32
,
35

Republic
31
,
396

Timaeus
87

see also
Cambridge Platonists

Plotinus
29

Pneumatic Institution
415
,
416

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

portraits
240
,
256

self
273

postmodernism
15

predestination
83

Presbyterianism
229
,
362

press
see
print culture

Price, Richard
264
,
365

Priestley, Joseph
8
,
24
,
98
,
348
,
366
,
375

attacked
413

Christian beliefs
363
–5,
365
,
376
,
378
,
419
,
453

determinism
367
,
419

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

growth of
22
,
113

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

Protestantism
6
,
17
,
18
,
21
,
22

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

psychology
371
,
398
–9

purgatory
20
,
82
,
473
n

invention of
365

repudiated
21

Puritans/Puritanism
6
,
22
,
81
,
156
,
362