Records of Harvey : in extracts from the journals of the Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew / with notes by James Paget.

Date:
1846
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Credit: Records of Harvey : in extracts from the journals of the Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew / with notes by James Paget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    plasters, and pulteses for the poore, wch Mr. Bright after the hering of the cause deliv’eth his opinion that the Apothecarye is onely but to finde such medicines & drinckes as are minis- tred inwardely unto any of the poore & not otherwise, And the Surgions to find all other stuffe, as plasters, ointements, pulteses & such like things for the poore, as are to be ministred out- wardly ” [whereupon the court ordered each to provide his own accordingly]. And on the 5th of October, 1588, this entry is made, by which the charge of the apothecary at this time is yet more nearly defined :— “ This day Roger Gwynn Apothecarie came to this courte & made request to the Gov’noures of this house, with the concent of Mr. Doctor Bright & prayeth that his stipend may be amended and made as much as he hath in Sl. Thomas Hospitall, & offereth to serve & to finde a purging diet for such & so manie of the poore of this house as shall have occacon to use it, in the spring of the yere, for the space of three weekes togeather, & a drie diett for a fortenight once in the yere, And further offereth uppon urgent occacons to use the like diet for viii or or xii p'sons in the fall of the leafe, or at any other time when he shalbe appointed by the phisicon, Surgions, or gov’noures of this house, And also he offereth to find yerelie to such poore as shall haue neade, all such oiles ointements & plasters as are neadefull & appointed by the phisicon: And further for the better & more speadie Recov’rie of the poore, he also offereth to finde wekelie through- out the yere, sufficient good & holesome skurvigrasse for the poore, to use dailie, to stampe & streine the same for drinck; And in considei'acon that the said Gwynn shall effectuallie p’forme the offer above menconed, Order is taken by this Courte that the said Roger Gwynn shall have .... xl1 a yere, the same to he paid quarterlie, & this graunt to continewe so long as the gov’- noures of this house shall see the poore better looked to & soner healed then heretofore they have beene used, & also order is taken that the Surgions shall not further charge the Apothecarie