The album amicorum of Adam Harel, and other papers of Dr. Christian Harel.

  • Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet
Date:
1914
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The album amicorum of Adam Harel, and other papers of Dr. Christian Harel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    “ Friday, the 21st.—Her majesty complained of an headache with an inclination to vomit, upon which the Physitians then present, did advise her Majesty to make use of a Cardims posset, which her Majesty was pleas’d to take four or five times with good success. “ Saturday, the 22nd.—Her Majesty complain’d of a pain in her head and back, with a flushing all over her face almost like S*. Anthony’s fire. The physitians having consider’d her Majties case, thought it necessary to open a vein, and to draw off about nine ounces of blood ; in the afternoon Dr. Radcliff met the Physitians, and being inform’d by them of Her Majesty’s conditions and the remedys they had exhibited, he approv’d of what they had done, and having joyn’d with them in a consultation, it was agreed on, to apply a blistering plaister the same night between her shoulders, and that a cordial bolus should be given immediately after. “ Sunday, the 23rd.—Her Majesty, having had an indifferent good night, found herself something easier, and the physitians upon seeing her Majesty perceiv’d some few eruptions, which appear’d more distinctly at night. “ Monday, the 24th.—The physitians, being admitted to visit Her Majstie, were all of opinion it would prove the small pox, and pursued the method they had begun : at night they perceiv’d her face began to swell. “ Tuesday, the 25th.—Her Majesty, having had a very favourable night, told the physitians she found herself much better ; but towards night grew worse and her feaver increas’d, and had but a very indifferent night, notwithstanding the same remedys were applied as before. “Wednesday, the 26th.—The physitians, after having visited her Majesty, found her much alter’d for the worse, and would not resolve on anything further, till they had the advice and assistance of more physitians, who having seen her Majtie and consider’d her condition, joyn’d with the rest in a consultation in which it was unanimously resolved to let her Majtie blood and apply blistering plaisters and plaisters to the feet, and to give her such medicines as are necessary and proper in Her Majties case. “ Her Majestie continu’d very restless all night and scarce slept at all, but only dozd and slumberd by intervals. “ Thursday, ye 27th.—The physitians found her Majestie so desperately ill that they absolutely despair’d of her recovery, and notwithstanding the advice of more physitians, and all the endeavours imaginable, she grew worse and worse from time to time till she expir’d, which was about a quarter before one a clock on friday morning : the 28 of December 1694.” Dr. Christian Harel’s notes show that he was a foreigner, and his possession of the album of Adam Harel, the apothecary of Aix-la-Chapelle, indicates that he was his son. I have had the opportunity of examining Dr. Christian Harel’s papers which are preserved with the album, and its owner, a descendant of a famous royalist who was President of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was sent to the Tower by the Commonwealth, in 1649, has lent it to me so that it may be seen in the Library this evening. Norman Moore.
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