. Annals of medical history. mtown, various other physicians were calledin and it is their treatment of the patientwhich forms the subject matter of his first to arrive was Dr. Coxe, who mas-querades under the nickname of Dr. Poly-phemus; our MS. annotator says that thename was given to Coxe in derision, as beinga very small man. He prescribed clysters, The copy in the Lil^rary of the Royal Society ofMedicine has been rebound. On the inside coverof the book as it was in its original binding was aMS. note of the personages concerned. This hasnow disappeared; I took a note of these name
. Annals of medical history. mtown, various other physicians were calledin and it is their treatment of the patientwhich forms the subject matter of his first to arrive was Dr. Coxe, who mas-querades under the nickname of Dr. Poly-phemus; our MS. annotator says that thename was given to Coxe in derision, as beinga very small man. He prescribed clysters, The copy in the Lil^rary of the Royal Society ofMedicine has been rebound. On the inside coverof the book as it was in its original binding was aMS. note of the personages concerned. This hasnow disappeared; I took a note of these names fromtiic f)ld copy in pre-war days—Th. Coxe, W. Charle-ton, Richard Lower, D. Wiiistlcr, Th. Wetheriey,La Mott, .lames Moulins, Th. Warren (tiieapothecary). ointments, fomentations and cordials, andin twenty-four hours the apothecarys billalone came to over three pounds. Coxe thenproceeded to call in Drs. Lower and Charle-ton, the former appears under the name ofDr. Timon and the latter is designated theEphcsian Doctor.^. \KLi-rox, .M. Royal College of Physicians) The first thing in debate was, what parts werehurt, for the discovery of which they com-manded their French Surgeon to make hissoundings, which he performed not by theProbe, but by his Fingers, screwing one or twoof them into the Wound, and turning themround: upon the forcing them out again certi-fied his Principals that the Peritonaeum wasdivided, his Finger having grated quite roundand round the Perforation, and so consequentlythe Sword must have passed through the hol-low of the Belly. We need not follow the discussionwhich followed, but it is interesting to lindrecorded that Charleton sat up with thepatient at night for which service he wasever saluted next Morning, with threeGuinies, besides Pipes, Tobacco, Wine, Ale, On account of his having written The Ephesianand (jninuiian Matrons, 165S. Gideon Harvey: Sidelights on Medical Life and paying the Apothecary for the Opiumwhich was usually given when the
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