A Collection of Chirurgical Tracts

1

See Mr Ashmole’s Antiquities of Berkshire, 3 Vols. 8vo. p. 111 of Vol. 1st.

2

This Case was published by Mr Daniel Turner, Surgeon.

3

Mr Rushworth died 1737, and it is here inserted in Justice to his Memory.

4

Particularly that of Riding; relating to which, consult Mr Fuller’s Medicina Gymnastica.

5

See Boyle on Specific Medicines.

6

The Bp. of L – n’s Sermon against Masquerades.

7

An able Member of the College of Physicians.

8

Acts, c. 15. v. 29. That ye abstain from Meats offered to Idols, and from Blood, and from Things strangled, and from Fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye do well. Fare ye well.

9

On the Feast of Corpus Christi, or the 13th of June, the Commons of Kent brake down the Stew-Houses near London-Bridge, at that Time in the hands of the Frowes of Flanders, who had farmed them of the Mayor of London. Stow’s Chron. p. 285.

10

In the latter end of March (Anno Reg. Hen. VIII. 36) “the Stewes on the Bank-side of the Thames, in Southwark, was put down, by the King’s Commandment, which was proclaimed by sound of Trumpets, no more to be privileged, or used as a common Bordell, but the Inhabitants of those Houses, to keep good and honest Rule, as in all other Places of the Realm. Stow’s Chron. p. 591.

11

See Aubrey’s Natural History and Antiquities of Surrey, 8vo. Vol. v. p. 221.