is corrupted like that, which do yet make them afraid of him; but no ill accident appeared in all the doing of the thing, but with all imaginable success, as Sir Alexander Frazier did tell me himself, I asking him, who is very kind to me.--April 3rd: This day I saw Prince Rupert abroad in the Vane room, pretty well as he used to be, and looks as well, only something appears to be under his periwigg on the crown of his head.--4th: (At the Duke of Albemarle’s.) One at the table told an odd passage in the late plague, that at Petersfield (I think he said) one side of the street had every house almost infected through the town, and the other not one shut up.--June 28th, 1667: Home, and there find my wife making of tea, a drink which Mr. Pelling, the potticary, tells her is good for her cold and defluxions.--Nov. 21st: With Creed to a tavern, where Dean Wilkins and others; and a good discourse; among the rest of a man that is a little frantic, and that is poor and a debauched man, that the College have hired for 20s. to have some of the blood of a sheep let into his body, and it is to be done on Saturday next. They purpose to let in about twelve ounces, which they compute is what will be let in in a minute’s time by a watch. On this occasion Dr. Whistler [President of the Royal College of Physicians] told a pretty story, related by Muffet, a good author, of Dr. Caius, that built Caius College, that being very old, and living only at that time upon woman’s milk, he, while he fed upon the milk of an angry, fretful woman, was so himself; and then being advised to take it of a good-natured, patient woman, he did become so beyond the common temper of his age.--30th: I was pleased to see the person who had his blood taken out ... saying he finds himself much better since, and as a new man. But he is cracked a little in his head, though he speaks very reasonably, and very well. He had but 20s. for his suffering it, and is to have the same again tried upon him; the first sound man that ever had it tried on him in England, and but one that we hear of in France.--June 23rd, 1668: To Dr. Turberville about my eyes, whom I met with, and he did discourse, I thought, learnedly about them, and takes time before he did prescribe me anything, to think of it.--29th: To Dr. Turberville’s, and there did receive a direction for some physick, and also a glass of something to drop into my eyes; he gives me hope that I may do well.--July 3rd: To an alehouse; met Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and Dr. Clarke, Waldron, Turberville, my physician for the eyes, and Lowre, to dissect several eyes of sheep and oxen, with great pleasure, and to my great information. But strange that this Turberville should be so great a man, and yet to this day has seen no eyes dissected, or but once, but desired this Dr. Lowre to give him the opportunity to see him dissect some.--13th: This morning I was let blood, and did bleed about fourteen ounces towards curing my eye.--31st: The month ends