. Annals of medical history. ns twenty grains of calomel. The •^If we accept the list of persons given in the oldMS. note in the Royal Society of Medicine copy ofthe book, the surgeon was James Mouhns. He wasone of a family of surgeons, and it was presumablyto his father Edward Moulins that Evelyn showedhis Tables of arteries, nerves and veins (now inthe Royal College of Surgeons Museum. SeeEvelyns Diary, April 2, 1649). The name wasvariously spelled Moulins, Moleyns, Molines andMullins. The James Moulins with whom we areconcerned was born in 1628 and died in 1686. He ismentioned by Pepys (Dia
. Annals of medical history. ns twenty grains of calomel. The •^If we accept the list of persons given in the oldMS. note in the Royal Society of Medicine copy ofthe book, the surgeon was James Mouhns. He wasone of a family of surgeons, and it was presumablyto his father Edward Moulins that Evelyn showedhis Tables of arteries, nerves and veins (now inthe Royal College of Surgeons Museum. SeeEvelyns Diary, April 2, 1649). The name wasvariously spelled Moulins, Moleyns, Molines andMullins. The James Moulins with whom we areconcerned was born in 1628 and died in 1686. He ismentioned by Pepys (Diary, February 3, 166^7) assuccessfully trepanning Prince Rupert, for sometrouble caused by an old gunshot wound he hadreceived near La Bassee, in 1647. prescription was signed by Harvey and oneother doctor, and as the latter had consentedto the administration of the calomel, heexpected a similar concession on Harveyspart to the administration of powderedcalcined hedgehog. The prescription forthis medicament runs as follows:. Frontispiece to the Pharmacopoeia, 1677.{The College of Physicians in IVarmck Lane) ^, Erinac. cale. & subtil, pulv. 3//. sumat. incochl. j. Syr. Balsam, ruhr. boris duodecim postbolum prescript. The bolus in question contained the doseof calomel. The next day cupping glasseswere used, it is stated to the patients greatrelief and to the abatement of his pains forover two months. A fearsome lot of medi-cines were next crowded upon the unfor-tunate patient, and the hedgehog was thecause of great controversy; iinally Harvey 224 Aixiials oj Medical History and the surgeon informed the prescriberthereof that if he persisted in trying to en-force his prescription they would not con-sult with him again. Not to be out-witted,the physician paid a visit by himself, in theevening and again prescribed his intentions were frustrated by Harveysarrival, and the dose was not this time his Lordship was on asudden surprised with a Diarrhoea,
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