Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 4 by Markman Ellis

Author:Markman Ellis [Ellis, Markman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General
ISBN: 9781351568630
Google: nS8rDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05T01:29:21+00:00

Richard Bradley, The Virtue and Use of Coffee, with Regard to the Plague, and other Infectious Distempers

p. 171, ll. 2–5: At this time … Pestilence: an outbreak of bubonic plague at Marseilles in 1720 caused the death of more than 100,000 people in the city over the next two years, and initiated a widespread panic across all of Europe. Bradley also published The Plague at Marseilles considered; with remarks upon the plague in general (London, Eman Matthews, 1721).

p. 172, ll. 8–9: Coffee is of excellent Use in time of Pestilence: coffee has no efficacy against bubonic plague.

p. 173, l. 10: Dr. Hodges: Nathaniel Hodges (1629–88), physician, renowned for remaining in London as medical adviser to the City during the great plague of 1665 (ODNB).

p. 174, ll. 3–4: a growing tree in the Amsterdam Gardens: Bradley had visited the Hortus Botanicus (Botanical or Physic Garden) of Amsterdam in 1714, and examined the live specimen brought from Java that had been success fully cultivated there under glass. James Petiver, an English apothecary and botanist, on a tour of Holland in 1711, marvelled at the ‘Coffee tree, which had near 2 pounds ripe fruit on it, a sight no less delightfull then amazing’ (James Petiver to Patrick Blair, 12 February 1712, BL Sloane MSS 3338, fols 27v–31r, 28v). Following Petiver’s urging, Richard Bradley ingratiated himself amongst the Dutch botanists in 1714, and in July managed to smuggle a live specimen back to London, where it was cultivated under glass in the nursery of Thomas Fairchild in Hoxton. For the best account of this matter see Richard Coulton, ‘Curiosity, Commerce, and Conversation in the Writing of London Horticulturists during the Early-Eighteenth Century’ (unpublished PhD dissertation, University of London, 2005).

p. 176, ll. 26–7: JACOB COTOVICUS, in his Travels to Jerusalem, Anno 1598: Cotovico, a Dutch traveller, noted coffee (Cauo) in Jerusalem in 1598: his account was later published as Joannes Cotovicus, Itinerarium hierosolymitanum et syriacum, in quo variarum gentium mores et instituta (Antwerp, Apud Hieronymum Verdussium, 1619), p. 482.

p. 177, l. 7: PROSPER ALPINUS: see above, note to p. 80, l. 11.

p. 177, l. 21: PALUDAMUS: see above, note to p. 118, l. 19.

p. 178, l. 1: see above, note to p. 21, ll. 19–21.

p. 178, l. 13: PARKINSON … pag. 1622: see above, note to p. 80, marginal note. John Parkinson developed a renowned physic garden in Long Acre ‘well stored with rarities’.

p. 178, l. 23: JOHN BAUHINE: Jean Bauhin, or Johannes Bauhinus (1541–1613), Swiss Protestant botanist, author of a herbal Historia plantarum universalis, still incomplete at his death, but later published in 1650.

p. 178, l. 25: CASPER BAUHINE: Gaspard Bauhin, or Caspar Bauhinus (1560–1624), Swiss botanist, brother of Jean, the first part of whose Theatrum Botanicum was published in 1658.

p. 178, l. 1: MR. RAY, in his Histor. Plant.: see above, note to p. 157, ll. 4–6.

p. 179, l. 7: MONSIEUR PONCETT, in his Voyage to Æthiopia: Charles Jacques Poncet (d. 1706), physician, travelled to Gonder, the capital of Ethiopia, to treat the emperor Iyasu I and his son for leprosy.

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