A medical roll of honour : physicians and surgeons who remained in London during the Great Plague / by S.D. Clippingdale.

  • Clippingdale, Samuel Dodd, -1925.
Date:
1909
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Credit: A medical roll of honour : physicians and surgeons who remained in London during the Great Plague / by S.D. Clippingdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ease, then put a loijenfie into his mouth, and proceeded to examine the patient. After spending some liours in this way he retnrned home, and drank a glass of sack, dining soon after oif roast meat and pickles or other relish, condiments of all sorts being cheap and abundant iu the city during the epidemic. He drank more wine at dinner. Afterwards he saw more patients at his own house, and paid more visits, returning home between eight and nine o’clock. He spent the evening at home, never smoking tobacco, of which hfe was a professed enemy, but drink- ing old sack till he felt thoroughly cheerful. After this he generally slept well. Twice during the epidemic he felt as if the plague had infected him, but after increased draughts of sack he felt well in a few hours, aud escaped without serious sickness. Dr. Hodges’s valuable services to his fellow-citizens do not seem to have met with the recognition they deserved. He was constantly harassed by want of money, and was frequently in debt. From the Corporation he received two gifts of £100 each (Guildhall Library MS. 270). Never- less, his poverty increased, and it seems incredible that this faithful public servant was allowed to end his days in a debtor’s gaol. Yet such was the case. Dr. Hodges died in the Fleet Prison on January 10th, 1688. He was buried in St, Stephen’s, Wallbrook, where a handsome monument has been erected to his memory. Dr. Hodges wrote several works on the plague, the most important of which is Loimologia, or an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665, published in Latin by the author in 1672, and translated into English by Dr. John Quincey in 1720. Readers of Harrison Ainsworth’s novels will recollect that it was Dr. Hodges who attended the grocer’s daughter in Old St. Paul's. O'Dowd, Dr., was one of those who, with Drs. Burnett, Glover, and' others, met his death in making a post-mortem examination on a person who had died of the j)lague on August 25th, 1665. He received his M.D. degree from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Further particulars of him have not been obtained. Paget, Nathan, was the son of the Rev. Thomas Paget, Rector of Stockport, but born (1615) in Manchester. He went first to the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A., then studied medicine at Leyden, where he graduated M.D. in 1639; returning to this country, he settled in practice in London. He became an Extra- Licentiate of the Roval College of Physicians in 1640, a “ Candidate ” in 1643, a Fellow in 1646, Censor in 1655-7-9-67-8, and Harveian Orator in 1664. He died in 1677. He is mentioned by his contemporary, Hodges, as one of the few physicians in London during the plagite. He was an intimate friend of Milton, and married a cousin of the poet’s third wife, Elizabeth Minshull. Peck, Samuel.—Particulars of this physician are want- ing. He is not mentioned in Munk’s “ Roll of the College of Physicians,” nor in the lists of graduates of any British university. He probably graduated abroad. He is men- tioned, however, more than once in the City archives as “ Dr. Samuell Peeke, Dr. in Phisicke,” and the following entry shows that he resided in London, and did meritorious