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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    but in severall days returnd 6 or 7 times every day, with this odde circumstance, that when he was in a fit he would run his nose against the ground like a mole to get into it which he did not before that specific. This man was cured by trepanning. Tuesd.Jun. 28. Mr. Duelos tels me that the best water about Paris is at Auteuil, a litle towne upon the Sein below Paris neare the Bois de Bologne, and next to that is Luxembourg water. With that of Auteuil he hath cured diseases even virulent gonorrhaeas as with medicinale waters giveing 2 pints in a morning. But the best way of takeing them is to steepe senae 1 drachm in 4 or 5 ounces of the same water all night and give that first in the morning and then take the remainder of your 2 pints, which is good for fluor albus. The sena carys off the water. In weake and decaid bodys where the stomach is infirme to give a large quantity of mineral waters which it cannot master often increases the weakeness instead of cureing the disease. Instead of mineral waters I have often with great successe used this secret: Take half the lungs of a calf boile them in up to 3 pints of spring water eight or twelve times. Let the patient drinke J of this warm in bed and it will ease sweat; J whilst a dressing, and it will passe by urin, and some time after, and it will give a stoole or two, and this being a liquor agreeable to the stomach may without injury be taken without any harme to it, and soe cure many diseases where cure lyes in diluteing whereof there are many. That the soule quits not the body presently upon the disorder of the organs necessary to the motion of the machin is his opinion, and upon this occasion he tells this story whereof he himself was an eye-witnesse. There was a young fellow hanged himself who loved and was exceed ingly beloved by his father. The father came into the place where the body lay a good while after he was dead, upon which the bloud came fresh out of his nose. After he had left the body, there was an occasion that made him returne again, and upon his approaching again the dead body, fresh bloud boubled a fresh out of his nose, which being taken notice of, the experiment was tried over severall times by makeing the father goe and returne, and always succeeded. What love did in this, other passions will doe in the like occasions. So far Mr. Duelos: see his booke of Salts 1 which is now going to be printed. Mr. Duelos [great liar. 2 ] Br. 3 1 This would seem to be his Observations sur les Eaux Minérales , which appeared in 1675. His Dissertation sur les Principes des Mixtes Naturels did not come out until 1680. 2 Shorthand. 3 There is no doubt that this stands for Briot, whose name is given in full in an entry for 22 June when he is reported to have made the same remark about Duclos's claim to have effected various cures. Water p. 169 Aquae minerales Gonorrhea venerea Fluor albus pp. 169-70 Diluteing p. 170 Soule pp. 170-2
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