Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Facsimile of draft letter from Symcotts to Francis
- Contents
- Symbols used in transcription
- Editorial Note
- Introduction
- Correspondence
- The Case-Book of John Symcotts
- Case Histories
- Prescriptions
- Recipes
- John Symcotts’ Will
- Pedigree
- Map
- Glossary
- Index Of Personal Names
- Index Of Places
- Subject Index
Prescriptions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2023
- Frontmatter
- Facsimile of draft letter from Symcotts to Francis
- Contents
- Symbols used in transcription
- Editorial Note
- Introduction
- Correspondence
- The Case-Book of John Symcotts
- Case Histories
- Prescriptions
- Recipes
- John Symcotts’ Will
- Pedigree
- Map
- Glossary
- Index Of Personal Names
- Index Of Places
- Subject Index
Summary
[The prescriptions listed below are mostly in Latin, are all in the hand of John Symcotts, and written on scraps of paper of various shapes and sizes. They are largely repetitive and of a character resembling those which are scattered throughout the case-book. Their chief interest lies in the names of the patients for whom Symcotts prescribed and the dates of their illnesses, as follows:]
1. For the poor woman of Fenton. Feb. 1 1633.
2. Mr. Castell. 14 Mar. 1636.
3. For my brother George his son. Mar. 17 1637.
4. Mr. Mathias Bisby of Bedford, aged 30.
(Consumption ?) Oct. 18 1637.
5. For the Right Hon. the Lord St. John. Sept. 20
1638.
6. For Mistress Dorothy St. John. Oct. 25 1638.
7. For Goodwife Baggly’s child of Retford. May 7 1640.
8. For Mr. Towers. July 10 1640.
9. Mistress Cludly. Nov. 6 1640.
10. Mistress Catesby. Sept. 2 1644.
11. John Goods of Kimbolton. Sept. 24 1644.
12. Mistress Radcliff. Jan. 6 1645.
13. Mr. Cannum. June 13 1647.
14. Dr. Bowles for Mistress Baldwin. May 10 1648.
15. Mistress Lane. Mar. 6 1651.
16. Mistress Cotton. Aug. 18 1651.
17. Goodman Cope. Dec. 9 1652.
18. Mistress Mountagu. Mar. 24 1653.
19. Mistress Templer of Ashby. Oct. 19 1653.
20. Mistress Conquest of Hemingford. April 8 1654.
21. Mr. Richard Stones. Feb. 28 1657.
22. Mistress Wise. June 30 1660.
23. Mr. Dickman’s son. March 11 1661.
[The following are undated : ]
24. Mistress Bassy. (Toothache.)
25. Mistress Beard.
26. John Bease (hydropsical). Catworth.
27. Mistress Elizabeth Bedell.
28. Goodwife Collins.
29. For the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Cotton.
30. For G. Coxie his daughter of St. Ives.
31. For Mistress Alice Dendy.
32. Mistress Gascoyne.
33. Mistress Goldsmith.
34. Coz. Haseld[en].
35. For Mistress Halford.
36. For Mistress Dorothy Harvey.
37. Mr. Hill of Stanford.
38. Lady Howard.
39. Mr. Parnill.
40. Mr. Reading.
41. Mr. Sewster’s child.
42. The daughter of Mr. Smith of Barnwell.
(Epilepsy.)
43. G. Timms of St. Ives.
44. H. Vintener.
45. Mistress Elizabeth Worthington. (Age 13.)
46. Mr. Nicholas Worthington.
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- A Seventeenth Century Doctor and his PatientsJohn Symcotts, 1592?-1662, pp. 91 - 94Publisher: Boydell & BrewerFirst published in: 2023