Michael, under the dates
mentioned by Aubrey. Eight of the thirteen persons who died during its
continuance were of the family of the Kingtons.-J. B.]
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May-dewe is a very great dissolvent of many things with the sunne,
that will not be dissolved any other way; which putts me in mind of
the rationality of the method used by Wm. Gore of Clapton, Esq}. for
his gout; which was, to walke in the dewe with his shoes pounced; he
found benefit by it. I told Mr. Wm. Mullens, of Shoe Lane, Chirurgion,
this story; and he sayd this was the very method and way of curing
that was used in Oliver Cromwell, Protectour. [See "Observations and
Experiments upon May-Dew," by Thomas Henshaw, in Philosophical
Transactions, 1665. Abbr. i. 13.-J. B.]
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For the gowte. Take the leaves of the wild vine (bryony, vitis alba);
bruise them and boyle them, and apply it to the place grieved, lapd in
a colewort-leafe. This cured an old man of 84 yeares of age, at
Kilmanton, in 1669, and he was well since, to June 1670: which account
I had from Mr. Francis Potter, the rector there.
Mr. Wm. Montjoy of Bitteston hath an admirable secret for the cure of
the Ricketts, for which he was sent to far and neer; his sonne hath
the same. Rickettie children (they say) are long before they breed
teeth. I will, whilst 'tis in my mind, insert this remarque; viz.
about 1620, one Ricketts of Newbery, perhaps corruptly from Ricards, a
practitioner in physick, was excellent at the curing children with
swoln heads and small legges; and the disease being new and without a
name, he being so famous for the cure of it they called the disease
the ricketts; as the King's evill from the King's curing of it with
his touch; and now 'tis good sport to see how they vex their lexicons,
and fetch it from the Greek {Gk: Rachis} the back bone.
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