In 1626 Harvey’s stipend, which had been £25 per annum, was raised to £33 6s. 8d., on condition that he relinquished his claim to one of the hospital houses. In 1630 he obtained leave of absence from his hospital duties, having been commanded by the King to travel with James Stuart, Duke of Lenox. Harvey was at this time physician extraordinary to the King, and in the year following was appointed physician in ordinary. Dr. Andrewes appears to have been appointed as Harvey’s substitute during his absence, the governors showing themselves somewhat unwilling to accept Dr. Smith, who was Harvey’s nominee. It appears that the work of the hospital increasing, and Harvey being much occupied at court, Dr. Andrewes was definitely appointed Harvey’s coadjutor, or, as we should say, “assistant physician,” with the yearly stipend of £33 6s. 8d. A set of rules was drawn up by Harvey and accepted by the governors, which are interesting in two particulars: first, as showing that Harvey was impressed with the necessity of limiting the relief afforded by the hospital, and that he foresaw the inconvenience likely to arise from a press of what we should call “out-patients;” and secondly, that in the matter of prescribing internal remedies the chirurgeons were unable to act independently of the physicians. It further appears that there were “lock” hospitals in connection with St. Bartholomew’s, established in Southwark and Kingsland, in the disused Leper Hospitals (leprosy having then disappeared from London), for the reception of venereal cases. That venereal disease had long been very rife in London appears from the statement of William Clowes in 1596, that within five years over 1,000 cases had been cured at St. Bartholomew’s, and he adds, “I speak nothing of St. Thomas Hospitall, and other houses about the city, wherein an infinite multitude are daily cured.” Harvey retired from St. Bartholomew’s in 1643. In Harvey’s time the staff consisted of two physicians, three surgeons, one of whom, John Woodhall, was the author of the “Surgeon’s Mate,” and in his twenty-four years’ service amputated “many more than 100 of legges and armes,” with a mortality of 20 per cent., one surgeon for the stone, two surgeons or “guides” for the lock hospitals, an apothecary, and “a curer of scald heads.” This latter functionary appears to have been a woman, and the salary paid to her for her services varied from £27 in 1623 to £126 in 1642, and there is evidence to show that she received three or four shillings for each scald head cured. According to Dr. Church, at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, where the diet, owing to the munificence of Dr. Radcliffe, has, since his time at least, been exceptionally good, so late as 1767 potatoes do not seem to have been introduced into any of the diets; greens were given on certain days of the week, but no other vegetables are mentioned. THE PHARMACOPŒIAS.