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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    Venerea p. lió (Latin) Suppurative p. IIÓ (Latin) Venerea salivado P. 117 pp. 118-19 Sat. Apr. 30. Rx. Equal weights of [mercury] and pork fat; subdue the mercury with sufficient Venetian turpentine by shaking, then mix in the fat. Rx. 2 ounces each of white lily oil and Rosat. of sapin and elder flowers; -J- pound each of sheep and calf fat; ounces each of powdered myrrh and incense; melt the whole on a slow fire; then add 1 lb. of melted naval pitch; 6 ozs. of yellow wax; -J pound of clear turpentine; 2 ounces of Rosemary and Lavender oil; make into a suppurative and anodyne ointment; this is a good anodyne after the operation of Caustic medicines. Mr. Hubins. A very effective local anodyne can be made with women's milk, oil of eggs, breadcrumbs, saffron, powdered linseed and a little camphor. Some mix a little opium in place of the camphor. ib. Sund. May 1. N, 1 haveing been bathd 9 days foregoeing twice a day an hower or more at a time and purged in the beginning, midle and end of her batheing, takeing her purge just as she went into her bath, had this day the aforesaid oyntment applyd. i°. Upon a linin cloth treble folded about 3 inches brode or more was spread some of the oyntment, pretty thick, and this coller warmed put about her neck. 2 0 . Some of the oyntment was rubd and chafd in about her ankle, and soe downewards to almost her toes, and one, being donne and wrapd up in linin 4 or 5 times double, the other was served soe too, and after that all a long the spina dorsi from one end to the other the breadth of a hand or more, and soe quite round the shoulder joynt and from the shoulder along the clavicla to the neck. The time taken up in all this chafeing etc. was as I guess, about J an hower, and about i£ ozs. of the oyntment. Mund. May 2. N. was anointed again after the same fashon only with this addition, that a litle of the ointment was rub on both her groins with the point of the forefinger but very litle chafed in. I guess that at this time about 1 oz. of the oyntment was imploid, i.e. § or f of a pot which held [.. . 2 ]. Her diet from the first day of the anoynting, and soe to continue all along the salivation, was twice every 12 howers a draught of plain but good broth and without bread and reare new laid eg once to be taken every 4th hower, soe that she had in 24 hower 4 draughts of broth and 2 egs, and for drinke barly water with succory roots 3 and a litle liquorish boiled in it, of which she might drinke as much as she pleased, the cold being taken off. 1 A female patient at the Charité Hospital. 2 Blank in MS. 3 Alteration of chicory. The plant is Cichorium intylus , which grows wild in England and France. Its leaves and roots are used medically.
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