. Doctors and patients; or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine. lleyn, born in the Isle of Ely, one of the family ofthe unfortunate Anne Boleyn. During the reign of QueenMary he practised in Norwich, whence he removed to Blaxhall,in Suffolk. No one ranked higher as botanist and of the rushes near Orforde, in Suffolk, and about theIsle of Ely, Bulleyn says: The playne people make mattesand horce-collars of the greater rushes, and of the smaller theymake lightes or candles for the winter. Rushes that growupon dry groundes be goode to strewe in halls, ch
. Doctors and patients; or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine. lleyn, born in the Isle of Ely, one of the family ofthe unfortunate Anne Boleyn. During the reign of QueenMary he practised in Norwich, whence he removed to Blaxhall,in Suffolk. No one ranked higher as botanist and of the rushes near Orforde, in Suffolk, and about theIsle of Ely, Bulleyn says: The playne people make mattesand horce-collars of the greater rushes, and of the smaller theymake lightes or candles for the winter. Rushes that growupon dry groundes be goode to strewe in halls, chambers, andgalleries, to walke upon—defending apparell, as traynes ofgownes and kirtles, from the dust. He tells of the virtue ofSuffolk sage, which, Mr. Jeaffreson adds, the nurses of thecounty still believe in as having miraculous effects when ad-ministered in the form of sage-tea. Of Suffolk hops, now butlittle grown in the county, he speaks with high praise, especiallyof those grown round Framlingham Castle and the late houseof nunnes at Briziarde. I know in many places of the. PHYSIC] ANN i :i (LLEGE L \:.K / Dr. Bulleyn. 19 country of Suffolke where tliey brew theyr beere with hoppesthat growe upon theyr owne groundes, as in a place calledBriziarde, near an old famous castle called Framlingham, andin many other places of the country. In the doctors Book of Simples we find of figs— Figges be good agaynstmelancholy and the falling evil, to be eaten. Figges, nuts, andherb grasse do make a sufficient medicine against poison or thepestilence. Figges make a good gargarism to cleanse thethroate. The Double Daisy is mentioned as growing ingardens. Daisy-tea was once employed in gout and rheumatism,as herb tea of various sorts still is by the poor of our provinces. Sir Theodore Mayerne was physician to many crowned heads—Henry IV., and LouisXIII. of France; and James I., Charles I., and Charles II., ofEngland. Though Mayerne was the most eminent practitionerof his d
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