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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    flesh twice a day, but moderately, and is very thirsty, and continues her broths mornings and nights. Thursd.Jun p. This day N. went first abroad her spiting continueing p- 158 still a litle. Mond. Jun. 13. I saw Mr. Hubin cut the tendon of a dog's leg. His Pectus way of reuniteing him was this. x° to run a needle of raw silk waxed pp- iss>-6o (about an inch or 2 from the end whereof was a litle role of parchment staid by knot) through one end of the cut tendon and then through the other, and then through another like peice of roled parchment which was about the bignesse of a barley corne, and soe drawing these 2 litle bolsters of parchment togeather with a knot draw togeather the two cut ends of the tendon, and then layd on them a plaget coverd with a balme made of the oyle of yolkes of egges and turpentine and another plaget a little larger with the same balme over the first and over all 2 defensitives one upon an other made of bolus armen, and the white of an egge, and this to remaine soe 3 days without opening. He said that oyle of Hypericon 1 many times infused with turpentine would make as good or better balme or Unguent of Arcoeus with turpentine. Wed.Juti. 15. N. had Friday last her courses till to day and that in SaUva ,6o great abondance. She used, in the time of her health, to have them every 3 weekes but this last time she stayd a month dureing her disease, also she had them a great quantity. She complains still of wandering pains of head and limbs, spits yet a litle a mornings, and is not quite rid of her sharpnesse of urin. The tumor 2 she complaind of in her matrice 3 since her salivation is quiet wasted away. But she told me the winter following the tumour troubled her there stil. Mund. Jun. 20. Mr. Bernier told me that in the East Indies the gout Podagra and stone are diseases scarce knowne and a quartan very rarely. The Quartan endemial diseases of the country are burning feavers and dysenterys. pp S Tùi r I Wed. Jun. 22. Mr. Duelos 4 at the King's Library. Rx: 2 parts of Ärthricis [antimony] butter prepared in the ordinary way, or better still prepared (Latin) 1 This was probably another name for oil of bricks. It was made by quenching red hot bricks in olive oil, and then breaking them up and extracting a distillate from them. Other names for this empyreumatic olive oil were oleum philosophorum, oleum sanatum, and oleum benedictum. (A. C. Wootton, op. cit., vol. n, p. 55.) Hypericon is not to be confused with hypericum= St. John's wort. 2 Probably a gumma. 3 O.E.D., Uterus, occasionally used for ovary. 4 Samuel Cottereau Duelos (d. 1715) was a foundation-member of the Académie des Sciences and Physician to Louis XIV. His principal writings were Observations sur les Eaux Minérales (1675), Paris, and Dissertation sur les Principes des Mixtes Naturels (1680), Amsterdam. Locke probably attended a meeting of the Académie des Sciences as they met at this period in the King's Library.
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