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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    or two, and soope at dinner, but never roast meat, unlesse it be the singers who are treated better than the rest. They have all trades necessary for the house within them selves. They bake, one week with an other, 100 asnes of wheat, partly for the use and consumption of the house, and partly to be distributed to the prisoners and poore of the towne. Though the portion of flesh be limited to every one, yet every one may have as much bread as he can eat. They usually have in their granary a provision of 6 or 7,000 Asnes of wheat which 10 or 12 men are dayly imploid in turning. It lyes about a yard or more thick and the roome open to the aire without glasse or paper to the windows. Nephritis Thürs. Nov. 10. Rx. Oats cleane as they come from the barn J peck; wild or bitter chicory, one handful; hony 2 spoonsful; mineral chrystal chlorosis 1 oz; cook in spring water, 6 pints; strain. Take a glasse or two in the morning as much in the afternoon. It is admirable good to carry away gravell and chlorosis. Mr. Selapris. 1 Quartan Sat. Nov. 12. Rx. Smalage or wild selery (about Nismes 2 they call it Api sauvage) cum toto q.s. Pound it and in a porenger of the juice [and] dissolve sugar q.s. Take of this morning and night 3 spoonfulls as hot as you can. Doe this till you have taken it all and it will cure a quartan. Some times it goes away before you have taken out the whole poren ger. This cured both Mr. Selapris and another of quartans in the month of August. Convaiescentia Q. The litle hearb that grows on walls that hath the under side of the leaves of a gold colour (i.e. asplenium or ceterach) 3 which boild in water makes it of a red colour, and being drannke for some time brings a florid colour into the cheeks after agues and other maladies. M. Selapris. For the Stone. Take Venice turpentine, the size of a thumb; mix it with good rhubarb powdered, the weight of a golden Demi-Ecu. Take one of these doses three separate times, each time during the 3 or 4 days of the waning moon. Note that the Rhubarb must be fresh, and that the first time you take only the weight of a gold Demi-Ecu, and the two other times of a whole gold Ecu. Mr. Selapris. This brings away the gravell and preserves from the stone. Ptisane of Health. Take a half measure of best clean washed oats, and a little handful of 'Jacques Selapris. Locke appears to have got to know him through Charleton, who informed him in 1681 of Selapris's death from cholera. He is described in Locke's letters as: Jacques Selapris l'aisné, marchand, rue de l'arbre Secq, à Lyons. 2 Nîmes. 3 Both belong to the fern family. The words in brackets were added by Locke later. P- 327 Nephritis p. 328 (French) Polycrest pp. 328-32 (French)
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