[574] Cited by Baker, l. c. p. 190.
[575] Lives of the Norths. New ed. by Jessopp. Lond. 1890, III. 188.
[576] He fell into a kind of decline and died at his country house on 5 September, Dr Radcliffe having been summoned from London without avail.
[577] Baker, l. c., “Had not physicians been taught by a man whom they, both abroad and at home, vilified as an ignorant empiric, we might at this day have had a powerful instrument in our hands without knowing how to use it in the most effectual manner.” This was written at a time when physicians spoke of “throwing in the bark”—throwing it in “with a shovel,” as an Edinburgh professor used to say.
[578] John Barker, M.D., of Sarum, and afterwards physician to the forces, says in 1742 (in his essay on the epidemic fever of 1741, u. s. p. 112) that he had Sydenham’s letter in manuscript before him, and that it was written in October, 1677.
[579] Cited by Baker, Trans. Col. Phys. III. 208.
[580] Beaufort MSS. Histor. MSS. Com. XII. App. 9, p. 85.
[581] Evelyn’s Diary, under the date of 29 Nov. 1694.
[582] Evelyn; Luttrell, I. 327.
[583] Hist. MSS. Com. V. 186. Sutherland correspondence.