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The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
Digby, Kenelm
Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665; Liquors; Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800
p. xxv 1. 3 "duel ... with a French lord." See the curious little
pamphlet, _Sir Kenelme Digby's Honour Maintained_, 1641.
p. xxvi 1. I The _Observations on Religio Medici_, together with the
correspondence between Browne and Digby, are often reprinted with
the text of _R.M._
p. xxvi 1. 5 "glass-making." See Longueville, pp. 255-6
p. xxix 1. 11 Descartes. Des Maizeaux. _Viede Saint-Evremond,_ pp.
80-6.
p. xxxi 1. 8 _A Late Discourse made in a Solemne Assembly of Nobles and
Learned Men at Montpellier_. By Sir K.D., Kt. Rendered faithfully
into English by R. White. 2nd ed., 1658. The original was in
French. Longueville gives a loathsome receipt for the Sympathetic
Powder from an original in the Ashmolean. "To make a salve yt
healeth though a man be 30 miles off." But vitriol is the only
ingredient Digby mentions; and the receipt given by his steward
Hartman [see Appendix], and sold by him, is more likely to be
Digby's. Of course, there were many claimants to the credit of the
invention of sympathetic powders.
p. xxxiii 1. 4 "house in Covent Garden." For a brief account of this
house, see an article on Hogarth's London in the _English Review_,
February, 1910.
p. xxxiv 1. 6 "history of the Digby family." This has disappeared.
p. xxxiv 1. 13 "Catalogue of the combined collection." _Bibliotheca
Digbeiana_, 1680. See also Edwards's _Memoirs of Libraries_, II,
118, and _Sir K.D. et les Anciens Rapports des Bibliotheques
Francaises avec la Grande Bretagne_. L. Delisle. 1892.
p. xxxviii 1. 20 Lloyd's _Lives of Excellent Personages that suffered
for ... Allegiance to the Soveraigne in the late Intestine Wars_,
ed. 1668.
p. xliv 1. 10 "remedy for Biting of a Mad Dog." There is a similar
receipt in _Arcana Fairfaxiana_, ed. G. Waddell, 1890, a
collection of old medical receipts, etc. of the Fairfax and
Cholmely families. "A Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog Published for
ye Benefit of Mankind in the Newspapers of 1741 by a Person of
Note.... N.B. This Medicine has stood a tryal of 50 years
Experience, and was never known to fail."
p. liii 1. 30 Culpeper's _English Physitian_, 1653.
p. liii 1. 30 N. Culpeper. Herball.
p. liii 1. 30 John Gerard. _The Historie of Plants_, 1547.
p. liii 1. 31 Wm. Coles. _Adam in Eden_ and _The Art of Simpling._ 1657
and 1656.
_To the Reader_.
p. 3 1. 20 "that old Saw in the Regiment of Health." _The Regyment, or
a Dyetary of Helth_. By Andrew Borde, 1542. (Reprinted by the Early
English Text Soc.)
_Receipts._
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