London and the Seventeenth Century by Margarette Lincoln ;

Author:Margarette Lincoln ;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780300248784
Publisher: Yale University Press

. . . Cure a Gonorrhaea, Running of the Rein or Clap, Pain, Heat, Scalding in making Water, &c. in a few Days: And very speedily take away all Aches or Pains in the Head, Back, Shoulders, Arms, Legs, or Night-Pains; Sores or Ulcers in the Mouth or Throat; All Sorn and stubborn Scabs, or breaking out in any part of the Body; preserve the Palate and Bridge of the Nose; purifie the Blood; perfectly free the Body of the Remains of any Pox or Clap formerly ill Cured.18

Prince Rupert, the king’s cousin, reputed to be suffering from chronic syphilis, finally submitted to operations on his skull to release corrupted matter. Pepys saw him at Whitehall Palace less than two months afterwards, ‘pretty well as he used to be, and looks well; only, something appears to be under his periwig on the crown of his head’.19 The prince may simply have undergone treatment for an old injury, since he was once shot in the head, but this was not Pepys’s understanding. Many writers who brooded on appearance and reality developed a corrosive cynicism; it was a theme that permeated through to popular literature and coloured the spirit of the age. The ballad ‘News from Hide Park’ describes a country gentleman’s encounter with a prostitute, who seemed an ‘armful of Sattin’ but divested of her wig and fine clothes became ‘Like a Lancashire witch of fourscore and ten’.20

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