Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part I. For the year 1757.: Giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours, of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.Various
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Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part I. For the year 1757.: Giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours, of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.
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It is farther to be noted, that almost all the lights in the church,
tho’ not broke, were bagged outward; but those parts remaining intire
in the window D most remarkably so.
_N.B._ It was said in the London papers, that the organ was intirely
spoilt: it is certain there is not, nor ever was, any organ in this
church.
XXVI. _An Account of the Case of the late Right Honourable_ Horace
_Lord_ Walpole; _being a Sequel to his own Account published in the_
Philosophical Transactions, _Vol._ xlvii. _p. 43. and 472_.
I.
_Copy of a Letter from_ John Pringle, _M.D. F.R.S. to Dr._ Robert
Whytt, _Professor of Medicine in the University of_ Edinburgh, _and
F.R.S. relating to the Case of the Right Honourable Lord_ Walpole;
_with Dr._ Whytt’_s Answer. Communicated by Dr._ Pringle.
[Read April 21, 1757.]
London, 22 Feb, 1757.
+SIR,+
I Imagined, that upon hearing of Lord Walpole’s death, you would be
desirous to know the state of his Lordship’s health from the time he
published his own case; whether he continued the use of his medicines
to the last; what distemper he died of; and, if his body was opened,
what was the condition of his bladder and kidneys. I informed myself,
as well as I could, of all these particulars; and I hope I shall be
able to give you some satisfactory account of most of them.
Last year, in the month of March, about ten months before his
Lordship’s death, I happened to meet him at a friend’s house, where
he dined, and never saw any man of his age with a more healthful
appearance. He was then in his 78th year. He ate with an appetite,
and of a variety of dishes; drank some Madeira, and was very chearful
the whole time. His Lordship then told me, that he had enjoyed perfect
health since he sent his case to the Royal Society; that he thought it
probable there was still a stone in his bladder, but so diminished, or
smoothed, as to give him no uneasiness; that he did not think it safe
to go about the streets of London in a coach, but that he went every
where in a chair; and that, in the country, he could travel 40 miles
a day in his post-chaise, without fatigue, or feeling any of his old
pains upon the motion. That he continued to drink, for a constancy,
three pints of oystershell lime-water daily; and to take, as often,
from half an ounce to a whole ounce of soap, by way of lenitive. All
these circumstances I am sure of, because I noted them down when I came
home.
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