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John Headrich (fl. 1697) war Laborant und Alchemist.
H. nannte sich auf dem Titelblatt seiner Arcana philosophia selbst «Philo-Chymicus, and formerley Operator to Dr. ↗ Richard Russel».
Theatrum Paracelsicum
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Sudhoff, Bibliographia Paracelsica (1894): 630-631
John Headrich
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Sources
"John Headrich, Philo-Chymicus, and formerley Operator to Dr. Richard Russel"
JONATHAN BARRY: John Houghton and Medical Practice in London c. 1700, in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 92, No. 4 (Winter 2018), pp. 575-603 (29 pages), https://www.jstor.org/stable/26640190
Peter Elmer: Medicine in an Age of Revolution, Oxford University Press 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853985.001.0001 (Open access)
- [Elmer 163] According to the Paracelsian John Headrich, Charles II frequently used Russell’s ‘royal tincture’ and valued him so greatly ‘that he was often in his Conversation, upon such grounds as his Royal prudence thought reasonable’; J. Headrich, Arcana Philosophia, or Chymical Secrets Containing the Noted and Useful Chymical Medicines of Dr Wil[lliam] and Rich [ard] Russel Chymists (London, 1697), A5r.
- [Elmer 168-169] Hubbard (d.1716 or 1717) was the subject of an effusive dedication by the Paracelsian John Headrich, a former assistant to Richard Russell, brother of the royal physician and chymist, William Russell (see 137, 167 n.109). In the epistle dedicatory to his Arcana Philosophia or, Chymical Secrets (London, 1697), Headrich claimed that he had been persuaded to publish this compilation of chymical remedies, based on the cures of Richard and William Russell, by a former physician to Charles II, presumably Hubbard (A4v). Hubbard, like so many of his chymical colleagues, was licensed by the bishop of London in October 1667, but later prosecuted by the College of physicians in 1682. He, too, subscribed to the Works of Glauber, published by Packe in 1689; Bloom and James, 56; RCPL, LEGAC/ENV 81.
