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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    cough be gon which they never faile to cure. First mix the hony with the oats and then sprinkle the pouder of brimston on them for then it will stick, and the horse cannot blow it away. Earle of Meath. 1 pp 'TA™ Thürs. Oct. 20. Clusius 2 gives a good description of plants and speaks only of what he has seen, and soe also Lobelius 3 with Pena. 4 Prosper Alpinus 5 and also Caesalpinus 8 are both good botanists and describe the plants well and on their owne observation. Gaspar Bauhinus 7 a good botanist and his Pinax an admirable worke, but many faults in it. Matthiolus 8 has not very well describd the plants, but has set downe the vertues as he found account of them amongst the country people where they grew and who had had experience of them, and there are there many excellent remedies amongst them. John Bauhinos 9 is but a compilator. Magnol. pp T u - ïs Mon. Oct. 24. (1). Let your horse bloud. The next morning take of the tender tops of rue one handful, wash them, cleane and beat them small in a mortar then put thereto i| spoonsful of fine hog's grease. Beat them togeather to an oyntment which being made into two balls put into the horses ears and put some wooll after them to keep them in. Then stick up his ears for 24 howers. Then take out the wooll and let the rest remaine. Then take a handful each of rue and savin, and 2 handfuls of Celan dine leaves and roots; wash them and beat them some what small and bake them in wine or strong bear 2 pints till a £ be consumed. Then strain the liquor and put to it a litle fresh butter and give it the horse luke warme. Ride him after it till he begin to sweat, tie him up to the rack, htter him well and cloath him warme and let him eat noe tiling for 2 or 3 howers then give him meat, and at night a mesh and warme water for 2 or 3 days. This certainly cures the Farcy. 10 [On the recom mendation of] Mr. Cheny. 11 1 William Brabazon (1635-85), who succeeded to the title in 1675. 1 Charles de l'Écluse (1526-1609). 3 Mathias de Lobel (1538-1616). 4 Pierre Pena and de Lobel published their Stirpium Adversaria nova in 1571. 6 Superintendent of the Botanical Garden at Padua at the end of the sixteenth century. 8 Andrea Cesalpino (1519-1603). ' Gaspard Bauhin (1560-1624). His Pinax Theatri Botanici appeared at Basle in 1596. 8 Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500-77). In 1558 he published commentaries on the six books of Dioscorides de Materia Medica, and an apology against Amatus Lusitanus. He was a noted botanist and Physician to the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. He is said to have been the first to administer mercury internally. 9 Jean Bauhin (1541-1613), brother of Gaspard. 10 O.E.D., Farcy, a disease of horses, closely allied to glanders. 11 Mr. Cheney was an Irishman. A letter from Denis Grenville, of 24 October, 1678, is addressed to Locke, Chez Monsr, Cheny, Gentilhomme Anglois, Habitant proche l'Eglise de St. Pierre A Montpellier. He seems to have acted as a tutor, since Charleton informed Locke in February 1679 that Mr. Cheney has order from Sir John Champante to conduct his son to Ireland towards Aprili. (MS. Locke, c. 5, ff. 29-30.)
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