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Hippocrates [combine with 3013] ( - )

Not sure if this is referring to the physician or the mathematician! Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates Relationships: Hippocrates [combine with 3013] was a same person as? (uncertain) Hippocrates [combine with 1007] (c. 460 BC-c. 370 BC)

 References in Documents:
Musaeum Clausum (1684)

12. A Comment of Dioscorides upon Hyppocrates, procured from Constantinople by Amatus Lusitanus, and left in the hands of a Jew of Ragusa.

Musaeum Clausum (1684)

14. An extract of the Inck of Cuttle Fishes reviving the old remedy of Hippocrates in Hysterical Passions.

Grew, Musaeum Regalis (1685)

Some part of it hath been cut off both at the bottom and on the side; yet is it above two feet long; at the bottom a foot broad; from whence it tapers to the top. Originally entire, like a taper'd Bag, commonly call'd Hippocrates's Sleive: but by some inconsiderate hand cut open on one side.

Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669)
A Remarkable Account of a Liver, appearing Glandulous to the Eye; communicated by Mr John Brown, Chirurgeon of St Thomas Hospitall in Southwark; in a Letter to one of the Secretarys of the Royal Society. SIR,

I SendI send you here the figure of the Liver of an Hydropical Person, a Patient of our Hospitall, (as it was accurately taken by Mr Faithorn,) which I thought so curious as to be worthy the notice of the Royal Society, and therefore have presumed to communicate it to you.

The Person was about 25 years of age, a Soldier in one of his Majesty's Regiments here in Town; who contracted his distemper by drinking much water, when he could not stirr from his duty, and catching cold at nights in being upon the guard: He was under the care of our Physicians for some time, by whose directions his swellings did by times abate; but afterwards it was observed, that the method which had been beneficiall to others, had not here the like success, his swellings returning upon him as before; so that there was nothing more now to be thought of, but a Paracenthesis; which operation however we judged very hazardous, by reason of the time of the year; and for that the Patient was very much emaciated; yet he being so much swell'd, that it was uneasy to him to ly in his bed, he importun'd us very often, and with great earnestness, that the Operation might be performed. Whereupon we taking Hippocrates rule, In casu ancipiti præstat Remedium anceps, quam nullum; and thinking it better to attempt a cure that might be but barely possible, then to abandon him to the certain expectation [1267] of death; a Paracenthesis by the Physicians consent and directions, was made by me the fourteenth of November last part, whereby we drew from the Patient about 3 pints of Brinish Liquor, and within 4 days after as much more, the next day morning he dyes, and his death as was found upon dissection, was partly occasioned by a mortification upon his Scrotum and Penis.

This Operation was performed to the satisfaction of the Physicians and Chirurgeons that saw it, and by it the Patient had some ease for the present.

Upon opening the body, I believe I took out about 24 quarts of water; he had a large inflammation upon the Peritonæum; all his other inward parts not much disaffected, except the Liver; which now I am going to describe to you.

Its magnitude was not extraordinary, but rather seemed less then usuall, but that which was very remarkable (and I think the like case scarce ever observed by any Author,) and seems much to confirm the opinion of the Learned Malpighius, is this; It consisted in its concave, convex, and inward parts of glands, which (with the Vessels) made up the whole substance thereof; these glands contained a yellowish Ichor, like so many Pustulæ, and was I suppose part of the bilious humor lodged in the same, tho otherwise the Liver between the glands was of its usuall reddish colour. In the bladder of Gall, we found a soft friable stone, but otherwise nothing considerable further in that part. The Liver was opened before the Physicians of our Hospitall Dr Dawkins, and Dr Briggs, as also Dr Tyson, and others who had the curiosity to see it; at which place Mr Faithorn was likewise, who then took that draught which I now present to you; so that this being attested by so good Judges, I need add no more but that this case by them all was thought worthy to [1268] be presented to your excellent Society, which therefore at their request I have adventured to do, hoping you will favourably interpret this presumption of,

December 15th 1685. London. Sir, Your faithfull Servant J. BROWNE.
Inventarie of the Gabions, in M. George his Cabinet (1638) The Inventarie of the Gabions, in M. George his Cabinet. OFf uncouth formes, and wondrous shapes, Like Peacoks, and like Indian apes, Like Leopards, and beasts spoted, Of clubs curiously knoted, Of wondrous workmanships, and rare, Like Eagles flying in the air, Like Centaurs, Maremaids in the Seas, Like Dolphins, and like honie bees, Some carv'd in timber, some in stone, Of the wonder of Albion; Which this close cabine doth include; Some portends ill, some presage good: What sprite Dædalian hath forth brought them, Yee Gods assist, I thinke yee wrought them, Your influences did conspire This comelie cabine to attire. Neptune gave first his awfull trident, And Pan the hornes gave of a bident, Triton his trumpet of a buckie[*]DOST: The shell of a whelk or other mollusc, Propin'd[*]to offer, as a gift to him, was large and luckie: Mars gave the glistring sword and dagger, Wherewith some time he wont to swagger, Cyclopean armour of Achilles, Fair Venus purtrayed by Apelles, The valiant Hectors weightie spear, Wherewith he fought the Trojan war, The fatall sword and seven fold shield Of Ajax, who could never yeeld: Yea more the great Herculean club Brusde Hydra in the Lernè dub[*]Scots: to consign, condemn. Hote Vulcan with his crooked heele Bestow'd on him a tempred steele, Cyclophes were the brethren Allans, Who swore they swet more then ten gallons In framing it upon their forge, And tempring it for Master George: But Æsculapius taught the lesson How he should us'd in goodly fashion, And bad extinguis't in his ale, When that he thought it pure and stale[*]Scots: chiefly of ale: having stood for a time and become clear, free from lees, ready for drinking With a pugill[*]measurement: a large pinch of polypodium[*]extract of the fern genus: And Ceres brought a manufodium[*]Parkinson: a nonce formation, perhaps macaronic (manu, ‘by hand’ + fodium, ‘food’? ‘dug up’?); bread is conventionally the gift of Ceres (Ovid, Met. 11.145, 13.639): And will'd him tost it at his fire And of such bread never to tyre; Then Podalirius did conclude That for his melt was soverainge good. Gold hair'd Apollo did bestow His mightie-sounding silver bow, With musick instruments great store, His harp, his cithar[*] OED: Any of various plucked stringed instruments similar in form to, or believed to have derived from, the cithara (citing Adamson), and mandore[*] OED: A large early form of mandolin (citing Adamson), His peircing arrowes and his quiver: But Cupid shot him through the liver And set him all up in à flame, To follow à Peneïan Dame: But being once repudiat Did lurk within this Cabinet, And there with many a sigh and groane, Fierce Cupids wrong he did bemoane, But this deep passion to rebet Venus bestow'd her Amulet, The firie flame for to beare downe, Cold lactuce and pupuleum; And thenceforth will'd the poplar tree To him should consecrated be. With twentie thousand pretious things, Mercurius gave his staffe and wings: And more this Cabine to decore, Of curious staffs he gave fourescore, Of clubs and cudgels contortized: Some plaine worke, others crispe and frized, Like Satyrs, dragons, flying fowles, Like fishes, serpents, cats, and owles, Like winged-horses, strange Chimaeraes, Like Unicorns and fierce Pantheraes, So livelike that a man would doubt, If art or nature brought them out. The monstrous branched great hart-horne, Which on Acteon's front was borne: On which doth hing his velvet knapsca[*]Scots: A kind of close-fitting metal defensive headpiece, a metal skull-cap, commonly worn under a bonnet or other fabric covering (DSL). Parkinson: Writing to his father-in-law Andrew Simson, James Carmichael recalled how, in 1560, as schoolmaster of Perth, Simson led the forces of reform ‘with the reade knapska’ (Wodrow Misc., pages 441–2, qtd in Durkan, 132).. A scimitare cut like an haksaw[*]i.e. hacksaw. OED: A saw with a narrow fine-toothed blade set in a frame, used esp. for cutting metal, citing Adamson, Great bukies[*]DOST: The shell of a whelk or other mollusc, partans[*]DOST: crab, toes of lapstares, Oster shells, ensignes for tapsters, Gadie[*]Gaudy beeds and crystall glasses, Stones, and ornaments for lasses, Garlands made of summer flowres, Propin'd him by his paramoürs, With many other pretious thing, Which all upon its branches hing: So that it doth excell but scorne The wealthie Amalthean horne[*]Amalthea ("tender goddess"), nursed and nurtured Zeus. In some versions she suckled him in the form of a female goat, and in others, she is a nymph who gives Zeus milk from a goat. In both cases, Zeus broke off one of the goat horns, which became the cornucopia, or horn of plenty (Leeming, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology). . This Cabine containes what you wish, No place his ornaments doth misse, For there is such varietie, Looking breeds no sacietie. In one nooke stands Loquhabrian axes[*]DOST: Lochaber-ax(e), n. A variety of long-handled battle-axe, described as having a single elongated blade, appar. originating in the Highland district of Lochaber. , And in another nooke the glaxe[*]glaxe OED, glaik, n., sense 3, ‘A child’s toy or puzzle’, citing W. Gregor’s note on Dunbar’s use of glaiks (65.497): ‘I have seen a toy called ‘the glaykis’ which was composed of several pieces of notched wood fitted into each other in such a manner that they can be separated only in one way.’ is. Heere lyes a book they call the dennet, There lyes the head of old Brown Kennet,[*]A Kennet is a small hunting dog (DOST). Possibly the name of a “defunct” hunting dog, whose head was preserved in some way. Here lyes a turkasse[*]Turkis. Scots: a pair of smith's pincers, and a hammer, There lyes a Greek and Latine Grammer, Heere hings an auncient mantua bannet[*]i.e. bonnet. OED: A hat or cap of a kind traditionally worn by men and boys; esp. a soft, round, brimless cap resembling a beret; a tam-o'-shanter. Now chiefly Scottish., There hings a Robin and a Iannet,[*]DOST cited Adamson but can provide no definition Upon a cord that's strangular A buffet stoole[*]OED: A low stool; a footstool. Now only Scottish and northern dialect. In the 15th cent. described as a three-legged stool sexangular: A foole muting in his owne hand;[*] lines 105-108. Parkinson: The earthy image is dispelled with an allusion to Proverbs 27.22; raising and suppressing interest in bodily functions is characteristic of ‘M. George’, as in the outcomes of his account of a horn-blowing competition, XXI.61–76. Soft, soft my Muse, sound not this sand, What ever matter come athorter[*]Athwart, Touch not I pray the iron morter. His cougs,[*]A wooden vessel made of hooped staves (DOSL) his dishes, and his caps[*]A wooden bowl or dish (DOST)., A Totum,[*]Parkinson: a four-sided disk with a letter transcribed on each side: T totum, A aufer, D depone and N nihil. The disk was spun like a top, the player’s fortune being decided by the letter uppermost when the disk fell’ (DOST). and some bairnes taps[*]A child's spinning-top (DOST, citing Adamson); A gadareilie,[*]Parkinson: not in DOST or OED. Related to gaud, ‘a plaything, toy … a gewgaw’ (OED, gaud, n.2, sense 2)? Or DOST, gade, n1, sense 3, ‘A bar of wood’? See DOST, (rele,) reil(l, n., sense 1b, ‘A reel on to which cord or rope may be wound up in a controlled manner …’; or sense 2, ‘A whirling or turning motion; an action that communicates such motion; a roll or stagger.’ and a whisle, A trumpe, an Abercome mussell,[*]Could be either a mussel or a muzzle (both senses in the DOST) His hats, his hoods, his bels, his bones, His allay bowles, and curling stones, The sacred games to celebrat, Which to the Gods are consecrat. And more, this cabine to adorne, Diana gave her hunting horne, And that there should be no defect, God Momus gift did not inlake[*]inlaik, v. to be deficient; to come or run short; to be wanting or missing (DOST): Only * * *,[*]Parkinson: possibly Eris, giver of the golden apple of discord that led to the Judgement of Paris and hence the Trojan War was to blame Who would bestow nothing for shame; This Cabine was so cram'd with store She could not enter at the doore. This prettie want for to supplie A privie parlour,[*]An apartment in a monastery set aside for conversation (DOST) stands neere by In which there is in order plac't Phœbus with the nine Muses grac't, In compasse, siting like a crown. This is the place of great renown: Heere all good learning is inschrynd, And all grave wisedome is confin'd, Clio with stories ancient times, Melpomené with Tragick lines, Wanton Thalia's comedies, Euterpe's sweetest harmonies, Terpsichore's heart-moving cithar, Lovely Erato's numbring meeter, Caliope's heroick songs, Vranias heavenly motions; Polymnia in various musick Paints all with flowres of Rhetorick, Amidst sits Phœbus laureat, Crown'd with the whole Pierian State. Here's Galene and Hippocrates, Divine Plato and Socrates, Th' Arabian skill and exccellence, The Greek and Romane eloquence, With manie worthie worke and storie Within this place inaccessorie. These models, in this Cabine plac'd, Are with the world's whole wonders grac'd: What curious art or nature framd, What monster hath beene taught or tamd, What Polycletus in his time, What Archimedes rich ingine, Who taught the Art of menadrie[*]The sub-discipline of mechanics pertaining to machines that leverage force, such as cranes and pulleys. See Jessica Wolfe, Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature (CUP, 2004), p. 59. The Syracusan synedrie. What Gods or mortals did forth bring It in this cabinet doth hing, Whose famous relicts are all flowr'd, And all with precious pouldar stowr'd: And richly deckt with curious hingers, Wrought by Arachne's nimble fingers. This is his store-house and his treasure, This is his Paradise of pleasure, This is the Arcenall of Gods, Of all the world this is the oddes: This is the place Apollo chuses, This is the residence of Muses: And to conclude all this in one, This is the Romaine Pantheon.