[67] Thomas Dover, M.B., The Ancient Physician’s Legacy. London, 1732, p. 98.
[68] Broadsheet in the British Museum Library.
[69] Tooke, Hist. of Prices, Introd.
[70] Scotia Illustrata. Edin. 1684. Lib. II. p. 52.
[71] Fynes Morryson, Itinerary, 1614. Pt. III. p. 156.
[72] Edinburgh, 1691, p. 67.
[73] The Epilogue to the Five Papers, etc. Edin. 1699, p. 22. This title refers to a controversy on the use of antimonial emetics in fevers. See Dr John Brown’s essay on Dr Andrew Brown, in his Locke and Sydenham, new ed. Edinb., 1866.
[74] He adds that “the fever has several times before been in my family and among my servants and children.” In mentioning the case of the Master of Forbes in August, 1691, whom he cured, he remarks that “the malicious said he was under no fever”; to disprove which Dr Brown refers to the symptoms of frequent pulse, watching and raving, continual vomiting, frequent fainting, and extreme weakness.
[75] Andrew Fletcher, Two Discourses. 1699.
[76] The English Government took off the Customs duty upon victual imported from England to Scotland, and placed a bounty of 20d. per boll upon it.