December 1677

Monday, 1 December 1677, n.s.

21 November 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Thursday, 2 December 1677, n.s.

22 November 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Journal entries: Degree, Countesse of Northumberlands case, Dentium dolor cum convulsionibus, Convulsio [repeated on pages 372, 373, 374, 376] — [Dewhurst]

Letter dated: From Dr. John Mapletoft. — [De Beer, i. 358]

Letter (undated): From Mrs. Margaret Blomer. — [De Beer, i. 359]

Between 6 and 7 p.m., Locke received a note from Mrs. Blomer, summonning him to attend on her mistress, the Countess of Northumberland (wife of the English ambassador), who was suffering from a violent toothache, accompanied by a facial tic [“convulsio”] (diagnosed on the basis of Locke’s case notes as trigeminal neuralgia). Locke attended the Countess for the next two weeks and sent letters to Mapletoft asking him to consult with his London medical colleagues. The case is described in Kenneth Dewhurst, “A symposium on trigenimal neuralgia” (1957).

Friday, 3 December 1677, n.s.

23 November 1677, o.s.

Weather observations at Paris, “[E]xtreemly cold with an exceeding hard frost.” — [Journal, ed. Lough; part shorthand]

Saturday, 4 December 1677, n.s.

24 November 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Letters dated: Three letters to Dr. John Mapletoft. The first, a short note, failed to arrive by 3/13 December and is now lost; the second [De Beer, i. 360]; the third [De Beer, i. 361]

Sunday, 5 December 1677, n.s.

25 November 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Letter dated: To Dr. John Mapletoft. — [De Beer, i. 362]

Monday, 6 December 1677, n.s.

26 November 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Journal entry: Convulsio [repeated on pages 378, 380, 382] — [Dewhurst]

Tuesday, 7 December 1677, n.s.

27 November 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Journal entry: Convulsio — [Dewhurst]

Friday, 10 December 1677, n.s.

130 November 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Letters dated: From Dr. John Micklethwaite to Dr. John Mapletoft and from Sir Charles Scarburgh to Mapletoft; enclosed in Mapletoft’s letter to Locke, 3 December. — [De Beer, i. (363), first and second enclosures]

Saturday, 11 December 1677, n.s.

1 December 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Journal entry: Convulsio — [Dewhurst]

Letter dated: From Dr. Thomas Sydenham to Dr. John Mapletoft; enclosed in Mapletoft’s letter to Locke, 3 December. — [De Beer, i. (363), fourth enclosure]

Monday, 13 December 1677, n.s.

3 December 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Letter dated: From Dr. John Mapletoft, with enclosures from Dr. John Micklethwaite, Sir Charles Scarburgh, Dr. Edmund Dickinson and Dr. Thomas Sydenham. — [De Beer, i. 363]

Tuesday, 14 December 1677, n.s.

4 December 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Journal entry: Vesicatorium — [Dewhurst]

Wednesday, 15 December 1677, n.s.

5 December 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Journal entry: Convulsio — [Dewhurst]

Friday, 17 December 1677, n.s.

7 December 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Journal entries: B. [i.e. Caleb Banks], Labia fissa — [Lough, Dewhurst]

Monday, 20 December 1677, n.s.

10 December 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Journal entries: Convulsio, Velvet, Satin — [Dewhurst, Lough]

Tuesday, 21 December 1677, n.s.

11 December 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Journal entries: B. [i.e. Caleb Banks], Quartana — [Lough, Dewhurst]

Wednesday, 22 December 1677, n.s.

12 December 1677, o.s.

At Paris

Letter dated: To Sir John Banks (no longer survives); to Dr. John Mapletoft. — [De Beer, i. 364]

Friday, 24 December 1677, n.s.

14 December 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Journal entry: Acosta — [Dewhurst]

Saturday, 25 December 1677, n.s.

15 December 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

Journal entry: Dentium dolor — [Dewhurst]

Friday, 31 December 1677, n.s.

21 December 1677, o.s.

At Paris.

The Journal for 1677 concludes with an essay entitled: ‘Memoire ou instruction des termes usites au Royaume de France en ce qui regarde le fait des monnoyes et prix du marc d’or et d’argent, p. Mr. Briot.’ (pages 391–401); the marginal caption “Mony” appears on pages 391, 392, 394, 396, 398 and 400.

Date uncertain

Work written [December 1677]: Dr. Locke’s case notes of the tic doloureux in the Countess of Northumberland.

Sources:
Journal 1677 = MS. Locke f. 2, as transcribed in:

Lough = Locke’s travels in France, 1675-1679 : as related in his journals, correspondence and other papers / edited with an introduction and notes by John Lough. – Cambridge : University Press, 1953.

Dewhurst = John Locke (1632-1704), physician and philosopher : a medical biography : with an edition of the medical notes in his journals / by Kenneth Dewhurst. – London : Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1963.

De Beer = The correspondence of John Locke / edited by E.S. de Beer. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1976-89. – 8 vols. – (Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke)