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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    Rabets Mund. 4 Jul. The way to have fat rabets is to gueld them young and let them run and this will make them excellent. Mr. Toynard. [Locke left Paris on 9 July, 1678, for his tour with Caleb Banks.] CTooked d Tuesd. July 12. [Orleans]. The town abounds in lame and crooke p. 192 backed people. 1 Dr. Godfrey, 2 a physitian of the town, imputed the crooked backs to the coughs the children are apt to have here when they are young, and the coughs to the subtilty 3 of the aire and strength of the wine which, making the young children cough, puts out their backbones when they are yet tender. Their lameness he imputes more to the negligence of nurses then any thing else, carrying them always wraped up and on one side, and he thinks this to be the cause, because this lameness lights more on girles that are tenderer, then boys who are stronger and sooner out of their swadleing clouts. Arthritis They are also much troubled with the gout here which he imputes pp. I92-3 ' . also to their wine which is very strong, and abstinence from wine cures it, of which he gave this example, that a friend of his designeing to make himself a frier because his gout made him unfit for any thing gave of [5 /c] wine by litle and litle, the better to prepare himself for those austeritys. But haveing left of wine a litle he found himself cured of the gout and soe remains ever since. Bruta How birds can imitate sounds if they doe not heare and retaine the sentiunt p-193 idea of those sounds in their memorys, and consequently have sence, is hard for me to conceiv. Trochisques Wed.Jul. 13. Trochisques. 4 Mr. le Professeur en Medicine. Rx: 1 oz. of Arsenic, i | ozs. of yeast moistened with saliva, | oz. each of white lead and red lead (one may take all red lead instead of white lead) : mix all together and make trochisques of any size you wish. The usage of this vid. page 21. When the scar is taken out put a large plagot of lint upon it that may be broader than the hps of the sore, and upon that on the outside of the lint an ovali roule of lint to lye on the midle of the opening which may make the sore by degrees grow longish and take off its roundnesse which hinders its healeing. It is the best way to cover the whole sore, even beyond the hps of it with a plagot of lint, than to doe as ordinarily the Chirurgens doe to stuff it with lint, which widens the hps; hinders its healeing, and makes the scar very great, whereas this draws the hps togeather and leaves but a little scar. In this way of cureing strumas, etc. you must use noe plaster nor oyntment. 1 La Fontaine makes a similar note in his Relation d'un voyage de Paris à Limousin (Œuvres, G.E.F. ed., vol. ix, pp. 241-3). 2 Dr. Godefroy furnished a large number of medical notes during Locke's stay in Orleans. 3 Subtilty: thinness, fineness, a rarefied form. 4 Troches, from the Greek, trochiscos, a cure. They were subsequently called postilli in Latin, and in English lozenges. (A. C. Wootton, op. cit., vol. n, p. 299.)
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