Samuel PepysUp betimes and to my office, leaving my wife in bed to take her physique, myself also not being out of some pain today by some cold that I have got by the sudden change of the weather from hot to cold.
This day is five years since it pleased God to preserve me at my being cut of the stone, of which I bless God I am in all respects well. Only now and then upon taking cold I have some pain, but otherwise in very good health always.
But I could not get my feast to be kept today as it used to be, because of my wife’s being ill and other disorders by my servants being out of order.
IanMoore3000@samuelpepys I read a description of how the operation on Pepys was performed, without anaesthetic or any protection against infection, and it's pretty horrific.
Acesabe@IanMoore3000
Out of gruesome curiosity I found one such account and for all the ills of contemporary times, at least we don't have to endure/survive medieval surgical practices!
CW https://barberscompany.org/on-this-day-26-march-samuel-pepys-lithotomy/
On This Day - 26 March 1658 - Barbers Company
On this day in 1658, surgeon and noted lithotomist Thomas Hollier operated on Samuel Pepys' bladder stone. The operation took place in Pepys' cousin Mrs Jane Turner’s house in Salisbury Court, the street on which he had been born 25 years before. Pepys had long suffered the discomfort and frequently extreme pain of 'the stone' [...]Read More...
@acesabe I think that was the one I read too. I read also somewhere that his surgeon stopped performing the operation after two of his patients died of infections. He thought he had lost the knack but it was more likely the case that his never sterisiled tools had become vectors of infection.
Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧@samuelpepys What gift does a person give on the anniversary of the passing of a stone?