. Doctors and patients; or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine. sight,—a piece of quackery scarcely credible. The virtues ofthis powder, Sir Kenelm maintained, were thoroughly inquiredinto by King James, his son, the Prince of Wales, the Duke ofBuckingham, with other persons of the highest distinction, andall registered among the observations of the great ChancellorBacon, and were to be added by way of Appendix to his Lord-ships Natural History. On the breaking out of the Civil War, he was by order ofParliament committed prisoner to Winchester House, but soonafterwards
. Doctors and patients; or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine. sight,—a piece of quackery scarcely credible. The virtues ofthis powder, Sir Kenelm maintained, were thoroughly inquiredinto by King James, his son, the Prince of Wales, the Duke ofBuckingham, with other persons of the highest distinction, andall registered among the observations of the great ChancellorBacon, and were to be added by way of Appendix to his Lord-ships Natural History. On the breaking out of the Civil War, he was by order ofParliament committed prisoner to Winchester House, but soonafterwards set at liberty, at the intercession of the QueenDowager of France. It was here, during his confinement,in 1643, that he wrote the Observations, alluded to above. The last generation witnessed the great demand for vipers, inconsequence of the virtues supposed to reside in their lingering belief in the wonderfully invigorating qualities ofviper broth is not yet quite extinct in some places. By the an-cients the animal was generally served to the patient boiled like A~ 2**3. er-Fi^ (f^~^G>^_ Dr. Radcliffe. 23 a fish, as being more efficacious than when taken in the form ofa powder, or other dried state. Sir Kenelm Digbys beautifulwife, Lady Venetia, was fed on capons fattened with the fleshof vipers. Dr. Radcliffe. About the year 1S20, the situation of the grave of Dr. Radcliffe,in St. Marys Church, Oxford, was not very precisely known ;but on opening one near the supposed spot, a brick grave wasdiscovered, which proved to be that of Radcliffe, by the evidenceof a gold coffin-plate; the simple inscription of which wasforthwith copied, and engraved on the marble pavement-stoneimmediately over the spot: JOHN RADCLIFFE M. D. DIED NOVR. THE Ist. 1714 IN THE 65I2. YEAR OF HIS AGE. Thus plainly is denoted the resting-place of the eminent , physician to William III. and Mary, and to QueenAnne. Radcliffe was bold, rude, and frequently wanting in the com-
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