The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power.

  • D'Arcy Power
Date:
1931
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Credit: The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the country. He then crossed the Atlantic and lived for some time in New England. Returning to Lon¬ don he first established himself near the gate of St. Bartholomew's Hospital where he treated many, sold them medicines and practised as an astrologer. His remedies included an Elixir Vitae and Family Pills, and in 1671 he published a Synopsis Medicinae or Compendium of Astrological, Galenical and Chemical Physick in three books. The work was written in English at a time when all orthodox medical litera¬ ture was in Latin. It had a large sale and was fol¬ lowed by many other publications of which the Lon¬ don Almanack, in 1684 is one of the best known. It combined prophecies with dates and was a precursor of Old Moore, which still has a huge clientele. Salmon made much money, formed a large library, was the possessor of two microscopes, several mathematical instruments and many curiosities which he had gathered in his travels. Of his three thousand volumes many were works on physic and surgery printed in the seventeenth century, rare copies of the classics, many Bibles, a very complete library of con¬ temporary medicine and a good proportion of works on mathematics, theology, botany and alchemy. He became involved in a religious quarrel about 1700 when he was a prominent member of the “New Reli¬ gious Fraternity of Free-thinkers, a body which met near Leathersellers Hall, in London, which is built upon the crypt of St. Helen's Priory in Bishopsgate
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