The theme of today's entry is disclosure, methinks -- literally revelation of what is ususally hidden, beneath the skin.
In major theatres, (1) at the Chyrurgeon’s Hall; (2) "aside" where Sir J. Mennes let out his feelings about Sir W. Penn; (3) in Sam's Diary where he shares his feelings about (1) and (2).
Fuddle \Fud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p., Fuddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fuddling.] [Perh. formed as a kind of dim. of full. Cf. Fuzzle.] To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. [Colloq.]
There are several anatomical phrases written accurately by Pepys that Wheatley elided.
"this being the second upon the kidneys, ureters, &c."
L&M have "this being the second upon the Kidnys, Ureters, and yard" Here "yard" is the term (perhaps in the lecture itself) used for penis.
"the kidneys, ureters [&c.], upon which he read to-day"
L&M have "the Kidnys, Ureters, yard, stone and semenary vessels upon which he read today" Clearly "semenary vessels" = testicles.
"questions that I could think of . . . how the water "
L&M have the "questions that I could think of, and the manner of that seed, how it comes into the yard, and how the water...." Again, "seed" = semen; Pepys is very clinical..
and a scanning error:
"I hope the King's service well done for all this"
L&M have "I hope the King's service will [be] done for all this"
"There is also a very excellent piece of the King, done by Holbein, stands up in the Hall, with the officers of the Company kneeling to him to receive their Charter."
"The merged Barber's Company and Guild of Surgeons in 1540 "was then named the Company of Barber-Surgeons. Holbein painted a picture of Henry VIII. and the Barber-Surgeons. The painting is still preserved, and may be seen at the Barber-Surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London.... It is the largest and last work of Holbein. "The date assigned for its commencement was 1541, and it was completed after the death of the artist in 1543. It is painted on vertical oak boards, 5 ft. 11 in. high, and 10 ft. 2 in. long. It has been slightly altered since it was delivered to the Barber-Surgeons. The figures represent notable men belonging to the company and leaders of the healing art of the period at which it was painted." http://homepages.ius.edu/kaleksan… Henry VIII. receiving the Barber-Surgeons. http://homepages.ius.edu/kaleksan…
"Commissioner Pett and I...to Chyrurgeon's Hall...; where we were led into the Theatre" -- for a performance!
"The rise of general interest in anatomy in the 16th century springs directly from experience of the plague, and Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543) quickly became the Bible of a resurgent and spectacular science. As Neill demonstrates, in this context, too, the theatrical mode remained the dominant form of engagement with the grim reaper. Anatomy lectures and public demonstrations of dissection became increasingly popular, and the construction of lavish, purpose-built anatomy 'theatres' enabled 'performances' to be advertised and tickets sold. In London, the Company of Barber-Surgeons put on four public dissections of criminal bodies a year and by 1636 Inigo Jones had designed them a new building, modelled on the teatro anatomico of Padua. In what amounted to carefully staged productions, 'the anatomist acted out a drama of the human encounter with death' and the anatomy theatre became an active adjunct to pulpit and playhouse, offering, like them, entertainment as well as instruction. The use of the bodies of criminals was one further aspect of the culture's preference for punishment by means of public humiliation and display, while the spectacle of the anatomist stripping away surfaces to disclose enfolded secrets obviously linked him with the exponents of dramatic art. As Sidney put it, tragedy works like a kind of moral surgery: it 'Openeth the Greatest Wounds and Showeth forth the Ulcers that are Covered with Tissue'. This is a recurrent trope, as is the idea of the anatomist as the explorer of mysterious regions. The body, rather than its condition, takes on the standing of an 'undiscovered country' and the title-page of Vesalius's great work accordingly features Christopher Columbus, gesturing knowingly towards the dissected corpse, as if to reinforce the words of Sir Thomas Browne: 'We carry with us the wonders we seek without us; there is all Africa and her prodigies in us.'" On the Way in which Tragedy 'Openeth up the Greatest Wounds and Showeth forth the Ulcers that are Covered with Tissue' - Terence Hawkes http://www.lrb.co.uk/v19/n24/hawk…
The New Exchange would have been near the northeast corner of this segment of the 1746 map, south of the Strand, about where Durhan Yard is. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
Barber’ Hall was rebuilt after it was destroyed after WW II 30' E of its original site, which has been the subject of an archaeological find:
Barber Surgeons’ Hall Gardens, London Wall, EC2 (BSG97) TQ 3228 8114
Barber Surgeons’ Hall Gardens, London Wall, EC2 TQ 3228 8114 MoLAS (W McCann) ground penetrating radar survey Mar 1997 Barber Surgeons BSG97
A survey has identified sub-surface anomalous areas which could be consistent with the survival of some remains from the 17th-c Anatomy Theatre designed by Inigo Jones [the sole part of the Hall to survive the Fire of 1666]. Additional anomalous areas may be associated with other structures, particularly that of the City wall at the W edge of the area. http://www.molas.org.uk/pages/sit…
Thanks, in Aqua Scripto for the fine summary of this day in the H of C. The URL has captured a square bracket at its end, absent which there is http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…
"The Commons in Parliament, I hear, are very high to stand to the Act of Uniformity"
"Resolved, &c. That it be presented to the King's Majesty, as the humble Advice of this House, That no Indulgence be granted to the Dissenters from the Act of Uniformity."
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 25 February 1663', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 439-40. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 22 February 2006.
" Captn. Cocke and I upon his hemp accounts till 9 at night"
Back to school with the accounts of 500 tons of hemp brought from Riga, "bought by him and [his] partners upon account, wherein are many things worth my knowledge." 18 February 1662/63 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
As I recall there was no consensus about the import of the phrase "worth my knowledge"; but he has nowise forgotten the accounts.
Where is a boy to send word ahead? (lacking landline phones, much less mobiles.)
"sweating again as I did before."
More of Sir J. Mennes's Venice treacle?! Sir J. may be regarded as an ineffective advocate, fairly or not, but he has a side career as a drug-smuggler and illicit apothecary. See 9 February 1662/63 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"The Buccaneers used this knife when they hunted wild pig and oxen on the Islands around Santa Domingo and Jamaica. Boucans came in all sizes and shapes and looked like a cut down cutlass. These knives were primarily used as a utility knife, but could be used in combat to hack or slash an enemy in battle [or to kill cows]." http://www.privateerdragons.org/p…
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About Friday 27 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
The theme of today's entry is disclosure, methinks --
literally revelation of what is ususally hidden, beneath the skin.
In major theatres, (1) at the Chyrurgeon’s Hall; (2) "aside" where Sir J. Mennes let out his feelings about Sir W. Penn; (3) in Sam's Diary where he shares his feelings about (1) and (2).
About Friday 27 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
fuddled
adj : slang for `drunk' [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Fuddle \Fud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p., Fuddled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Fuddling.] [Perh. formed as a kind of dim. of full. Cf. Fuzzle.]
To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. [Colloq.]
I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders. --Steele.
http://dict.die.net/fuddled/
[Not the OED, but true to Mennes's ravings.'
About Wigs
TerryF • Link
About Wigs & relata, with 27 illustrations
AT THE SIGN OF THE BARBER'S POLE
STUDIES IN HIRSUTE HISTORY
BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, AUTHOR OF "BYGONE ENGLAND", ETC.
COTTINGHAM, YORKSHIRE, J. R. TUTIN,1904
http://homepages.ius.edu/kaleksan…
About Friday 27 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
Stone
Stolzi, you are correct: its first occurrence is singular, but (my error earlier) L&M have “the Kidnys, Ureters, yard, stones and semenary vessels..."
Between you and Bradford (and, laggardly, me), we may find out what the Lecturer truly demonstrated.
About Friday 27 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
There are several anatomical phrases written accurately by Pepys that Wheatley elided.
"this being the second upon the kidneys, ureters, &c."
L&M have "this being the second upon the Kidnys, Ureters, and yard"
Here "yard" is the term (perhaps in the lecture itself) used for penis.
"the kidneys, ureters [&c.], upon which he read to-day"
L&M have "the Kidnys, Ureters, yard, stone and semenary vessels upon which he read today"
Clearly "semenary vessels" = testicles.
"questions that I could think of . . . how the water "
L&M have the "questions that I could think of, and the manner of that seed, how it comes into the yard, and how the water...." Again, "seed" = semen; Pepys is very clinical..
and a scanning error:
"I hope the King's service well done for all this"
L&M have "I hope the King's service will [be] done for all this"
About Friday 27 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
"There is also a very excellent piece of the King, done by Holbein, stands up in the Hall, with the officers of the Company kneeling to him to receive their Charter."
"The merged Barber's Company and Guild of Surgeons in 1540 "was then named the Company of Barber-Surgeons. Holbein painted a picture of Henry VIII. and the Barber-Surgeons. The painting is still preserved, and may be seen at the Barber-Surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London.... It is the largest and last work of Holbein.
"The date assigned for its commencement was 1541, and it was completed after the death of the artist in 1543. It is painted on vertical oak boards, 5 ft. 11 in. high, and 10 ft. 2 in. long. It has been slightly altered since it was delivered to the Barber-Surgeons. The figures represent notable men belonging to the company and leaders of the healing art of the period at which it was painted." http://homepages.ius.edu/kaleksan…
Henry VIII. receiving the Barber-Surgeons.
http://homepages.ius.edu/kaleksan…
About Friday 27 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
"Commissioner Pett and I...to Chyrurgeon's Hall...; where we were led into the Theatre" -- for a performance!
"The rise of general interest in anatomy in the 16th century springs directly from experience of the plague, and Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543) quickly became the Bible of a resurgent and spectacular science. As Neill demonstrates, in this context, too, the theatrical mode remained the dominant form of engagement with the grim reaper. Anatomy lectures and public demonstrations of dissection became increasingly popular, and the construction of lavish, purpose-built anatomy 'theatres' enabled 'performances' to be advertised and tickets sold. In London, the Company of Barber-Surgeons put on four public dissections of criminal bodies a year and by 1636 Inigo Jones had designed them a new building, modelled on the teatro anatomico of Padua. In what amounted to carefully staged productions, 'the anatomist acted out a drama of the human encounter with death' and the anatomy theatre became an active adjunct to pulpit and playhouse, offering, like them, entertainment as well as instruction. The use of the bodies of criminals was one further aspect of the culture's preference for punishment by means of public humiliation and display, while the spectacle of the anatomist stripping away surfaces to disclose enfolded secrets obviously linked him with the exponents of dramatic art. As Sidney put it, tragedy works like a kind of moral surgery: it 'Openeth the Greatest Wounds and Showeth forth the Ulcers that are Covered with Tissue'. This is a recurrent trope, as is the idea of the anatomist as the explorer of mysterious regions. The body, rather than its condition, takes on the standing of an 'undiscovered country' and the title-page of Vesalius's great work accordingly features Christopher Columbus, gesturing knowingly towards the dissected corpse, as if to reinforce the words of Sir Thomas Browne: 'We carry with us the wonders we seek without us; there is all Africa and her prodigies in us.'"
On the Way in which Tragedy 'Openeth up the Greatest Wounds and Showeth forth the Ulcers that are Covered with Tissue' - Terence Hawkes
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v19/n24/hawk…
About New Exchange
TerryF • Link
The New Exchange would have been near the northeast corner of this segment of the 1746 map, south of the Strand, about where Durhan Yard is. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Thursday 26 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
LOL, Robert Gertz! *****
About King's Head (Charing Cross)
TerryF • Link
Charing Cross is on the west side of this segment of the 1746 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Barber-Surgeons' Hall
TerryF • Link
Barber’ Hall was rebuilt after it was destroyed after WW II 30' E of its original site, which has been the subject of an archaeological find:
Barber Surgeons’ Hall Gardens, London Wall, EC2 (BSG97)
TQ 3228 8114
Barber Surgeons’ Hall Gardens, London Wall, EC2 TQ 3228 8114 MoLAS (W McCann) ground penetrating radar survey Mar 1997 Barber Surgeons BSG97
A survey has identified sub-surface anomalous areas which could be consistent with the survival of some remains from the 17th-c Anatomy Theatre designed by Inigo Jones [the sole part of the Hall to survive the Fire of 1666]. Additional anomalous areas may be associated with other structures, particularly that of the City wall at the W edge of the area.
http://www.molas.org.uk/pages/sit…
About Wednesday 25 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
Thanks, in Aqua Scripto for the fine summary of this day in the H of C. The URL has captured a square bracket at its end, absent which there is http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…
About Wednesday 25 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
"with Captain Cocke making an end of his...accounts"
The lessons of the Riga hemp bought on credit are done.
'Twill be interesting to see whether we can trace anything done by Sam'l later on back to it.
About Wednesday 25 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
"The Commons in Parliament, I hear, are very high to stand to the Act of Uniformity"
"Resolved, &c. That it be presented to the King's Majesty, as the humble Advice of this House, That no Indulgence be granted to the Dissenters from the Act of Uniformity."
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 25 February 1663', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 439-40. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 22 February 2006.
About Monday 23 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
I wonder if the likeliest boucan is a machete?
About Biographies of Pepys
TerryF • Link
A Fine extensive review of Claire Tomalin's "Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self’" and a biography of Pepys worth a read is:
Clara Claiborne Park
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An Entrancing Ego: Samuel Pepys
The Hudson Review
Vol. LVIII, No. 3: AUTUMN 2005
http://www.hudsonreview.com/ParkS…
About Tuesday 24 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
" Captn. Cocke and I upon his hemp accounts till 9 at night"
Back to school with the accounts of 500 tons of hemp brought from Riga, "bought by him and [his] partners upon account, wherein are many things worth my knowledge." 18 February 1662/63 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
As I recall there was no consensus about the import of the phrase "worth my knowledge"; but he has nowise forgotten the accounts.
About Tuesday 24 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
How like the Rev. Josselin to pray for another.
And when he does pray for himself, it is for the wherewithal to do what God wills he can do for others.
Thank you, Dirk, for continuing to hold up his example, which comes with a weather report attached!
About Tuesday 24 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
"a bad dinner, not being looked for"
Where is a boy to send word ahead?
(lacking landline phones, much less mobiles.)
"sweating again as I did before."
More of Sir J. Mennes's Venice treacle?!
Sir J. may be regarded as an ineffective advocate, fairly or not, but he has a side career as a drug-smuggler and illicit apothecary.
See 9 February 1662/63 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Monday 23 February 1662/63
TerryF • Link
BOUCAN
"The Buccaneers used this knife when they hunted wild pig and oxen on the Islands around Santa Domingo and Jamaica. Boucans came in all sizes and shapes and looked like a cut down cutlass. These knives were primarily used as a utility knife, but could be used in combat to hack or slash an enemy in battle [or to kill cows]."
http://www.privateerdragons.org/p…