The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Mr. Fisher ( - fl. c. 1675)
Jessop names him as "Mr. Fisher" with no further identification other than the fact that he attended to an ill girl in Sheffield. Relevant locations: Visited Sheffield, West YorkshireRelationships: Mr. Fisher was a same person as? (uncertain) T. [Captain] Fisher (fl. 1675-)
Mr. Fisher was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Francis Jessop (1639-1691)
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - An extract of a letter of July 28, 1675. by Mr. Lister from York to the publisher; containing some observations about damps, together with some relations concerning odd worms vomited by children, &c..
References in Documents:
with violent vomiting Fits, which held her for about a week,
and made her so weak, that her Parents began to despair of her
recovery. They at length sent for
Fisher
other things to say, Worm-wood was good for the
Sto
mach.
He going home to fetch things proper on that occasion,
they in the mean time offer'd her some Wormwood-Ale, which
she took so greedily, that she swallowed down a pint of it.
Fisher
up in his presence three
(See Fig. 2.) all very active and nimble. The Girle in a short
time recovered, and was well.
Fisher
brought the
ing
Experiments upon it. I remembring, I had seen some very
like them, which devoured the skins of such Birds as I kept
dried for Willoughby
dodes
weeks time they eat up, bones, feathers and all, except the ex
tremities
of the feathers and the beaks. I desiring to see, what
seems, agreed not so well with them, for they died within two
daies.