John Rutty

John Rutty (born December 25, 1697 in Melksham , † April 24, 1775 in Dublin ) was an English medic, chemist and naturalist.

Life

Rutty was born not far from Wiltshire , the son of a merchant of the same name . He came from an established family that belonged to the Quaker religious community . It was in this area that he received his first imprint and training. In 1719 he began to study medicine in London . Attracted by the great reputation of Herman Boerhaave , he enrolled at the University of Leiden on March 14, 1722 . In Leiden he received his doctorate on July 23, 1723 on the subject of de diarrhea as a doctor of medicine. In 1724 he settled in Dublin, Ireland, where he worked at the local hospital until the end of his life. His body was buried in St. Stephen's Green Cemetery.

In Dublin, Rutty developed an extensive writing career. Among other things, he dealt with the history of the Quakers in Ireland from 1653 to 1751. He presented the mineral water springs of the British Isles and examined their ingredients. The mutual interrelationships between weather and the diseases that occur were also the subject of his investigations. Also here, in the medical context, would be a work in Latin in which he dealt with medical drugs. In 1765 he described the caramel-like smell of the residue from vaporized diabetic urine and the sugar taste of the same. So he gave further information about the diabetes . The two-volume work on the natural history of the Dublin area, published in 1772, is also worth mentioning. In 1756 Rutty was a co-founder of the medical-philosophical society in Dublin (Medico-Philosophical Society). William Henry Harvey named some species of the acanthus family after him .

Works

• A Dissertation on Laurel Water. In: Philosophical Transactions. 1730
• Extract of a Letter from John Rutty, MD to Dr. Mortimer, Sec. RS, concerning the Poison of Laurel Water. In: Philosophical Transactions. 1732
• A History of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quackers in Ireland from 1653 to 1700. First compiled at the Request of their national Meeting, by Thomas Wright of Cork. Revised, enlarged and continued to 1751. Dublin 1751, London 1800 ( Online )
• A Treatise Concerning Christian Discipline, compiled with the Advice of a National Meeting of the People called Quackers, held in Dublin in the Year 1746. Dublin 1752
• Account of the Copper Springs lately discovered in Pennsylvania. In: Philosophical Transactions. 1756
• A methodical synopsis of mineral waters of Ireland. London 1757
• An Essay towards a natural, experimental, and medicinal History of the Mineral Waters of Ireland; wherein, the several impregnating Minerals being investigated by a Series of Experiments, each Water is reduced to its proper Class. The virtues of such as have been used are given from practical observations. Divers new waters, especially of the sulphureous and vitriolic kind, are enumerated, and more accurately described than hitherto. The whole illustrated with tables, exhibiting a clear view of the experiments in concert, and a comparison of the Irish to the English and other foreign waters. Dublin 1757
• Thoughts on the different Impregnations of Mineral Waters, more particularly concerning the Existence of Sulfur in some of them. In: Philosophical Transactions. 1759
• Of the Vitriolic Waters of Amlwch, in the Isle of Anglesey; with occasional Remarks on the Hartfell Spaw, described in the first Volume of the Edinburgh Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary, and in the fortyninth Volume of the Philosophical Transactions; and their comparison with other waters of the same class. In: Philosophical Transactions. 1760
• The Analysis of Milk and the different Species thereof .. Dublin 1762
• The Argument of Sulfur or no Sulfur in Waters discussed; with a Comparison of the Waters of Aix-Ia-Chapelle, Bath, and Bristol. Wherein the Sulfur is restored to the two first, and the Contents of the last arc ascertained with a somewhat greater Degree of Precision than in the Essay of the late Adept, and the injured Credit of divers other salutiferous Springs is vindicated, from the Evidence of that author's own experiments, corroborated by many others; being the Subjects of a Correspondence between the Author of the Methodical Synopsis of Mineral Waters and WR Esq., and some others. And to this is subjoined a more explicit Account of the Nitre of the Ancients. Dublin, 1762
• A chronological History of the Weather and Seasons, and of the prevailing Diseases in Dublin, with their various Periods, Successions, and Revolutions, during the Space of forty Years; with a comparative View of the Difference of the Irish Climate and Diseases, and those of England and other Countries. London 1770, 2nd vol. ( Online )
• An Essay towards a Natural History of the County of Dublin, accommodated to the noble Designs of the Dublin Society; affording a summary view, first, of its Vegetables, with their mechanical and economical Uses, and as Food for Men and Cattle; a catalog of our vegetable poisons; and a Botanical Calendar, exhibiting the respective Months in which most of the Simples in Use are found in Flower. Second, of its Animals. Third, of its Soil, and the State of its Agriculture; its Fossils, Mines, Minerals, and some lately discovered Mineral Waters, particularly the Sulphureous Water at Lucan, and its Medicinal Virtues, from practical Observation. Fourth, of the Nature of the Climate, from the Diaries of the Weather kept in Dublin for fifty Years past: interspersed with Meteorogical and CEconomical Observations. Dublin 1772, 2nd vol.
• Materia Medica, antiqua et nova, repurgata et illustrata, sive De Medicaminvum simplicium officinalium Facultatibus. Tractatus Authore Johanne Rutty, MD Exhibens ,
  • I. Simplicia nobis veteribusque communia de quibus fere quicquid veri aut verosimile apud Gnecos veteres et Recentiores Latinos et Arabes reperitur, Religitur, ennendung, et Notis illustratur.
  • II. Simplicia Dubia et noviter detecta quorum Vires indagantur, et Observationibus atque Experimentis Recentiomm illustratur. Adjectis Classibus simplicium secundum Qualitates et Eperationes sensibiles. Rotterdam 1775
• Opus XL Annorum. London 1775 ( online ), 1777;

Posthumous publications

• Observations on the London and Edinburgh dispensatories. In: Anthologia Hibernica. Volume II, London, 1776, p. 259
• Thoughts on the different impregnation of mineral waters, more particularly concerning the existence of sulfur in some of them. In: Philosophical Transactions. 1759, XI, p. 275
• A Spiritual Diary. 1777
• A Spiritual Diary and Soliloquies. London 1796 ( online )

literature

• August Hirsch : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 1887, vol. 5, p. 130
• J. Osborne: Memoir of Dr. Rutty. Illustrious Physicans and Suregons in Ireland. In: The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science. 1847, Volume 3, p. 555 ( Online , English)
• Sidney Lee: DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. Smith Elder & Co at Macmillan Company, New York-London, 1897, Vol. 1, p. 31
• A. Dechambre: Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales. G. Masson & P. ​​Asselin, Paris, 1877, 5th vol., P. 814 (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harold Fassnidge: Dr. John Rutty of Melksham Wiltshire. In: E. Charles Nelson: Occasional Paper. Botanic Gardens, Dublin, 1996, No. 8th.
2. ↑ WN du Rieu: Album Studiosorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae MDLXXV - MDCCCLXXV. Martin Nijhoff, The Hague, 1925, Sp 879
3. ^ Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen : Album Promotorum Academiae Lugdono Batavae. The Hague, 1913-1924, p. 285