Notes Notes to the Note on the Text and Introduction i. Mandeville’s address is repeated at the end of the Preface: “From my House in Manchester-Court, Channel-Row, Westminster.” ii. A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Passions, vulgarly call’d the hypo in men and vapours in women; In which the Symptoms, Causes, and Cure of those Diseases are set forth after a Method intirely new. The whole interspers’d, with Instructive Discourses on the Real art of Physick it self; And Entertaining Remarks on the Modern Practice of Physicians and Apothecaries; Very useful to all, that have the Misfortune to stand in need of either. In three dialogues. By B. de Mandeville, M.D. (London, printed for and to be had of the author, at his house in Manchester-Court, in Channel- Row, Westminster; and D. Leach, in the Little-Old-Baily, and W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-­Row, and J. Woodward in Scalding-Alley, near Stocks-Market, 1711). The second 1711 issue bears the following publica- tion details: “London, printed and sold by Dryden Leach, in Elliot’s Court, in the Little-Old-Baily, and W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, 1711”. The 1715 reprint bears the same title with different publication details (London, printed by Dryden Leach, in Elliot’s Court, in the Little Old-Baily, and sold by Charles Rivington, at the Bible and Crown, near the Chapter-House in St. Paul’s Church Yard, 1715). A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases. In three dialogues. By B. Mandeville, M.D., The second edition: corrected and enlarged by the author (London, printed for J. Tonson in the Strand, 1730). The reprint issued in 1730 bears the same title and publication details, but is presented on the title page as “The third edition” although it is identical to the previ- ous, so called “second edition”. © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 187 S. Kleiman-Lafon (ed.), Bernard Mandeville: A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases (1730), International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d’histoire des idées 223, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-57781-4 188 S. Kleiman-Lafon iii. For further details see note 10. iv. Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees, F.B. Kaye (ed.), 2 vols. (Oxford, Clarendon, 1924), vol. 2, p. 16. Other references to The Fable of the Bees will be to Kaye’s edition throughout, unless specified otherwise. v. R. Dekker, “‘Private vices, public virtues’ revisited: The Dutch background of Bernard Mandeville”, History of European Ideas, vol. 14, n°4, 1992, p. 481–498; Sir George Clark, History of the Royal College of Physicians, 4 vols. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1966), vol. 2, p. 476–480. vi. Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, (ed.) Joyce E. Chaplin (New York, Norton, 2012) p. 43–44. The tavern mentioned by Franklin may have been The Horn Tavern within the Doctor’s Commons. The Horn Tavern was a meeting place for a ‘free and easy’ club and, although probably later, for some masonic lodges. According to Valérie Capdeville—who tried to help me identify “the Horns”—Mandeville may have been a member of the ear- lier Hellfire Club. See John Brewer, Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979), p. 149 and 195. vii. F.B. Kaye (ed.), The Fable of the Bees, vol. 1., p. vii. viii. Joannes Groenevelt, Tuto Cantharidum in Medicina usus internus, second edition (London, John Taylor, 1703), n.p. The poem is signed “B. Mandeville, M.D.” although in the first English edition of the book, published in 1706, the translated poem is signed “I.F. Philo-Medicus”. For more on the rela- tions between Mandeville, Groenevelt and the Royal College of Physicians, see Harold J. Cook, “Treating of bodies medical and political: Dr. mandev- ille’s materialism” Erasmus Journal for Phylosophy and Economics, vol. 9, Issue 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 1–31; E.J. Hundert, The Enlightenment’s Fable. Bernard Mandeville ans the Discovery of Society (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 23; Margaret DeLacy, The Germ of an Idea; Contagionism, Religion, and Society in Britain 1660–1730 (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2016), p. 111. ix. Some Fables after the Easie and Method of Monsieur de La Fontaine (London, s.n., 1703) republished the following year in a substantially enlarged version (Æsop Dress’d, or a Collection of Fables writ in Familiar Verses (London, R. Wellington, 1704), this subsequent edition contains Mandeville’s translation of La Fontaine’s ‘Les Membres et l’estomac’ (‘The Hands, the Feet and the Belly’) which heralds the passages on the suprem- acy of digestion included in the Treatise and hint at the body as a metaphor of government he uses in The Fable of the Bees (vol.1, p. 3). x. Typhon: or the Wars Between the Gods and Giants: A Burlesque Poem in Imitation of the Comical Mons. Scarron (London, J. Pero, 1704); The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves Turn’d Honest (London, S. Ballard, 1705); The Virgin Unmask’d or, a Female Dialogue Betwixt an Elderly Maiden Lady, and her Niece, in Several Diverting discourses on Love, Marriage, Memoirs and Morals of the Time (London, J. Morphew, 1709). Further translations of Scarron’s Typhon were included a year after the publication of the Treatise Notes 189 in Wishes to a Godson (London, J. Baker, 1712). For more details on the writings of Bernard Mandeville, see Kaye’s invaluable bibliography: F.B. Kaye, “The Writings of Bernard Mandeville: a Bibliographical Survey” Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 20, October 1, 1921, p. 419–467. xi. Mandeville uses similar props in the dialogue of The Fable of the Bees, Part II. In the first dialogue, Cleomenes shows Horatio a “Dutch piece of the Nativity”, and in the third dialogue, he shows Horatio a book (the 1714 edi- tion of The Fable of the Bees) and offers to read him a passage. xii. Again, food is also used as a token of friendship in the second part of The Fable of the Bees. At the end of the first dialogue, Horatio invites Cleomenes to pursue their conversion over a fine dinner (“Hor. I am sorry to leave you […] But if you will come and eat a Bit of Mutton with me to-morrow, I’ll see no body but your self, and we’ll converse as long as you please. — Cleo. With all my Heart. I’ll not fail to wait on you.”), and in the fourth dialogue he offers to reward Cleomenes with a gift of exotic fruit (“I know you are a lover of fine Fruit, if you’ll dine with me to-morrow, I’ll give you an Ananas.”). xiii. Fable of the Bees, vol. 2, p.8. xiv. Fable of the Bees, vol. 2, p.8. Mandeville mentions Plato repeatedly in this passage. As to Plato’s opinion of dialogues, F.B. Kaye traced it back to Theætetus (143c): “Eucleides: Here is the book, Terpsion. Now this is the way I wrote the conversation: I did not represent Socrates relating it to me, as he did, but conversing with those with whom he told me he conversed. And he told me they were the geometrician Theodorus and Theaetetus. Now in order that the explanatory words between the speeches might not be annoying in the written account, such as “and I said” or “and I remarked,” whenever Socrates spoke, or “he agreed or he did not agree,” in the case of the interlocutor, I omitted all that sort of thing and represented Socrates himself as talking with them.” xv. Fable of the Bees, vol. 2, p. 9. xvi. Fable of the Bees, vol. 2, p. 10. xvii. For further reading on Mandeville’s handling of dialogues, see Timothy Dykstal, The Luxury of Skepticism: Politics, Philosophy, and Dialogue in the English Public Sphere, 1660–1740 (Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2001), especially chapter 4, “Mandeville: Dialogue as com- merce”, pp. 105–131. See also Michael Prince, Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996), especially pp. 203–212. On the devel- opment of dialogues in Mandeville’s time, see Eugene Purpus, “The Plain, easy, and familiar way: the dialogue in English literature, 1660–1725.” ELH, 17 (1950), pp. 47–58. xviii. On the Hippocratic regimen see Hynek Bartos, Philosophy and Dietetics in the Hippocratic On Regime, Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 44 (Leiden, Brill, 2015); Jacques Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen: 190 S. Kleiman-Lafon Selected papers (Leiden, Brill, 2012); Serena Buzzi, Il Regime di Salute in Medicina. Dalla Dieta Ippocratica all’Epigenetica (Alessandria, Edizioni Dell’Orso, 2017). Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and severall cures of it. In three maine partitions with their severall sections, members, and sub- sections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut up. By Democritus Junior. With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse (Oxford, printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1621). xix. The Fable of the Bees, vol. 2, p. 171. On excessive reading and on the profu- sion of information in the early modern period see Ann M. Blair, Too Much to Know. Managing Scholarly Information befoire the Modern Age (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2010). xx. On Mandeville’s Treatise as a talking cure, see Mauro Simonazzi, “Bernard Mandeville on hypochondria and self-liking”, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, vol. 9, issue 1, spring 2016, pp. 62–81; Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, “The Healing Power of Words: Medicine as Literature in Bernard Mandeville’s Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases” in Sophie Vasset (ed.) Medicine and Narration in the XVIIIth Century (Oxford, SVEC, 2013), pp.