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

  • Kenneth Dewhurst
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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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    Chaillou p. 44 (French) Varice P- 44 (French) Menstrua P. 45 (French) Milk P- 45 (French) Febris lactea p. 45 Intermittentes p. 46 Quartan P. 46 (French) Vomitoria p. 46 (French) When recovering from gonorrhoea nothing helps more to dry it up at once than an extract of sarsaparilla. Astringent or strengthening injections are also useful, such as White Trochiscs of Rhasis, with opium, the astringent stone of Crollius 1 (the painter's stone). But he found the following decoction the most effective: Rx. i drachm of Aloe [extract]; cook in pint of red wine; when the decoction is complete add a half pint each of Rose and Plantain water. For injection. Astringent and strengthening fomentations can also be used. Mr. Hubins. Sat. Mar. 5. Researches into the Origin and Movement of the Blood of the Heart and its vessels; of the milk of intermittent fevers; and of the humours. 8° Paris, '77, 407 pp. by Jacques Chaillou. You have only to bind the blood vessel under the swelling to cure it more easily. Chaillou, 407 pp., p. 113. Amatus Lusitanus writes that he saw two women whose courses were stopped, and who passed blood at intervals through their breasts. Brassavolus had seen another who passed it in the same manner. Chaillou, 407 pp., p. 145. One sees women who spurt milk through their breach, either because it is made to flow by medicines or it may happen through other causes. ib. p. 147. Milke a cow cleane 4 howers after she has eaten, and give her noe thing to eat before you milke her again, and you will finde noe milke. ib. p. 150. Milk Fever never comes but in women whose lochia stop. ib. 163. Massarias knew a woman at Venise that had a quartane 22 years. Maecanas had an ague, every day all his life. V.Plin., I.7, c. 51. Antipater the poet, who hved to a good age, had a fit of ague every year on his birthday of which at last he died. And lately a lady consultd me for an ague which for 4 years last tooke her every day and held her 4 howers. ib. p. 244. Aerius, the learned Greek doctor, says that the quartan fever never takes the same person twice, ib. 246. See also Hippocrates: De Hebdo- matibus [On Seven-Month Births]. The seed, flowers and rind of the root of the broom arouse vomiting. Mountain Spinach causes vomiting and purges through the anus with violence. One drachm or 2 scruples of Wild Spikenard root is a vomit or ijf oz. of the root or leaves in Decoction, ib. p. 334 [the 4 is smudged]. 1 Oswald Crollius, who described himself as Medicus et Philosophus Hermeticus, was one of the leading advocates of the doctrine of signatures, in his Tractatus de Signaturis. (A. C. Wootton. op. cit., vol. 1, p. 185.)
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