Doctors and patients, or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine / by John Timbs.
- John Timbs
- Date:
- 1876
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Doctors and patients, or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine / by John Timbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![■with abroad, wliicli afterwards made so much noise in the world, under the title of the ' Sympathetic Powder,' by which wounds were to be cured, although the patient was out of sight,—a piece of quackery scarcely credible. The virtues of this powder, Sir Kenelm maintained, were thoroughly inquired into by King James, his son, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Buckingham, with other persons of the highest distinction, and all registered among the observations of the great Chancellor Bacon, and were to be added by way of Appendix to his Lordship's J^atural History. On the breaking out of the Civil War, he was by order of Par- liament committed prisoner to Winchester House, but soon after- wards set at liberty, at the intercession of the Queen Dowager of France. It was here, during his confinement, in 1643, that he wrote the ' Observations' alluded to above. The last generation witnessed the great demand for vipers, in consequence of the virtues supposed to reside in their flesh. The lingering belief in the wonderfully invigorating qualities of vi])e,T 'broth is not yet quite extinct in some places. By the ancients the animal was generally served to the patient boiled like a fish, as being more efficacious than when taken in the form of a pow- der, or other dried state. Sir Kenelm Digby's beautiful wife, Lady Venetia, was fed on capons fattened with the flesh of vipers. Dr. Eadcliffe. About the year 1820, the situation of the grave of Dr. EadclifiPe, in St. Mary's Church, Oxford, was not very precisely known; but on opening one near the supposed spot, a brick grave was discovered, which proved to be that of Eadclifi'e, by the evidence of a gold coffin-plate ; the simple inscription of which was forth- with copied, and engraved on the marble pavement-stone imme- ' diately over the spot: JOHN RADCLIFFE, M.D. DIED NOV. THE 1. 1714, IN THE 65''. YEAR OP HIS AGE. 1 Thus plainly is denoted the resting-place of the eminent Dr. 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21443130_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
