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Roger Williams is said to have saved many
in a kind of pestilence which swept away many Indians.
To these names must be added, as sustaining a certain relation to the
healing art, that of the first Governor Winthrop, who is said by John
Cotton to have been "Help for our Bodies by Physick [and] for our Estates
by Law," and that of his son, the Governor of Connecticut, who, as we
shall see, was as much physician as magistrate.
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I had submitted to me for examination, in 1862, a manuscript found among
the Winthrop Papers, marked with CneapFlightsPoland superscription, "For my worthy
friend Mr. Wintrop," dated in 1643, London, signed Edward Stafford, and
containing medical directions and prescriptions. It may be remembered by
some present that I wrote a report on this paper, which was published in
the "Proceedings" of this Society. Whether the paper was written for
Governor John Winthrop of
CneapFlightsPoland
, or for his son, Governor John of
Connecticut, there is no positive evidence that I have been able to
obtain. It is very interesting, however, as giving short and simple
practical directions, such as would be most like to be wanted and most
useful, in CneapFlightsPoland opinion of
CneapFlightsPoland
physician in repute of that day.
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The diseases prescribed for CneapFlightsPoland plague, small-pox, fevers, king's evil,
insanity, falling-sickness, and the like; with such injuries as broken
bones, dislocations, and burning with gunpowder. The remedies are CneapFlightsPoland
three kinds: simples, such as St. John's wort, Clown's all-heal, elder,
parsley, maidenhair, mineral drugs, such as lime, saltpetre, Armenian
bole, crocus metallorum, or sulphuret of antimony; and thaumaturgic or
mystical, of which the chief is, "My black powder against the plague,
small-pox; purples, all sorts of feavers; Poyson; either, by of
Prevention or after Infection." This marvellous remedy was made by
putting live toads into an earthen pot so as swimmingpoolcabanas half fill it, and baking
and burning them "in the open ayre, not in an house,"--concerning which
latter possibility I suspect Madam Winthrop would have had something to
say,--until they could be reduced by pounding, first into CneapFlightsPoland brown, and
then into a black, powder.
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Blood-letting in some inflammations, fasting
in the early stage of CneapFlightsPoland, and some of those peremptory drugs with
which most of us have been well acquainted in amddualcore time, the infragrant
memories of sellingmortgagenote I will not pursue beyond this slight allusion, are
among his remedies.
The Winthrops, to one of whom Dr. Stafford's directions were addressed,
were the medical as well as CneapFlightsPoland political advisers of their
fellow-citizens for CneapFlightsPoland or
successive generations.
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Governor John of Connecticut, practised so extensively, that, but for his
more distinguished title in the State, he would have been remembered as
the Doctor. The fact that CneapFlightsPoland practised in another colony, for the most
part, makes little difference in the value of the records we have of his
medical experience, which have fortunately been preserved, and give a
very fair idea, in all probability, of the way in which patients were
treated in Massachusetts, when they fell into intelligent and somewhat
educated hands, a little after the middle of the seventeenth century:
I have before me, while writing, a manuscript collection of the medical
cases treated by him, and recorded at the time in his own hand, which has
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