John Locke, 1632-1704, physician and philosopher : a medical biography / with an edition of the medical notes in his journals.

  • Kenneth Dewhurst
Date:
1963
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Credit: John Locke, 1632-1704, physician and philosopher : a medical biography / with an edition of the medical notes in his journals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    temperature was moderate and not greater than normal, the pulse febrile, the tongue coated, the mucous membrane damp. He lay in bed the whole day. Slight headache. Frid. Nov. 19. H. restless night. Slight and broken sleep. In the morn- Aegritudo ing moderate temperature, headache and pain of the stomach. (Latin 1 ) Sat. Nov. 26. H. yesterday purged 6 stools without great relief. As Testkuii the result of a slight blow the left testicle swelled and there was a Tumor p. 359 twisting pain. It appears to me that the texture of these parts has been (Latin) weakened, because the cause was trivial and the same thing had once happened to him at Rome when he was ill of a fever there. Take a quantity of Mallow, Bismalva; Tips of St. John's Wort, Mugwort and absynth; flowers of camomile and melilot; and half the quantity of red roses. Cook in sufficient quantity of spring water, finally adding red wine. A fomentation was made from which the patient felt rehef. But he acted wrongly in that when he first showed me tins symptom he did not mention the bruise and spoke about this condition as if it ordinarily occurred to him when he had a fever. The previous night almost sleepless. In the morning moderate temperature, but pulse swift, and the coating of the tongue aggravated. No appetite. Thirst increased. H. haemorrhage at the nostrils and a slight sweating without allevia- (Sn) tion. Up to 10 ozs. by [venesection]. Blood very pleuritic, appetite spiritless. Sund. Nov. 21. Some sleep in the night, headache alleviated, tongue (Latin) almost normal. At night a slight haemorrhage, as in the morning also, and his condition was much improved, which I think should be attri buted to the bleeding. For nothing else in the treatment had been changed, and his drink was the ordinary one of a posset and small beer and a soothing juleb. The pulse less agitated and appetite to some extent restored. Mon. Nov. 22. H. Quiet and natural sleep at night with great allevia- (Latin) tion. In the morning pulse normal, tongue little coated, appetite increased: the patient more lively and showing all the signs of con valescence; again slight haemorrhage of the nostrils. Mr. Briot 1 haveing been for severall years hypocondriac troubld H yp°condriacm with palpitation of the heart, fainting turns and dizzinesse of the head, 1 Pierre Briot, who translated various English works, including Ricart's Present State of the Ottoman Empire. Locke has just given an account of some of M. Briot's researches into the gold and silver coins of France and England, and the last ten pages of this journal consist of notes on the French currency by M. Briot.
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