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Died Lovelace Love. This gentleman was known for his
extraordinary bulk. He weighed upwards of 60 stones and his coffin was 7 feet
long and 4 feet deep. His death was occasioned by his immense corpulence
Am suffering from an Ague my servant Squinting Agnes sent
for Quint the local churgeion. I must confess to feeling uneasy when this
information was conveyed to me as Quint is a better Cow doctor than a human one
and the sad death of Mistress Ralphs over bled by leeches is still the subject
of gossip in the parish. But the alternative of Polk the Churgeion in Leek
gives even more feelings of unease. Polk removed the left leg of a farmer badly
gored by a bull and in haste removed the
left testicle.
Quint examined the stools and the urine and found the later
somewhat discoursed and the colour of sack
Quint left a receipt for the Ague. It read "Take of the best
bark in fine powder, half an ounce, venicle treacle, two drachms. Lemon juice
as much as it will make a electuary. Divide it into three doses and taken over
three nights in warm beer"
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