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David Hume
Scottish philosopher David Hume, oil on canvas by Allan Ramsay, 1766; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
In 1729, the Scottish philosopher David Hume suffered a nervous breakdown. This health crisis was brought on by the intensity and excitement he experienced during his intellectual discovery and his voracious reading in the sphere of letters. It took him a few years to recover from this condition.1