David Arnot (physician)
David Arnot (died 1645) was a Scottish physician based in Edinburgh.
Arnot had a practice among the Scottish aristocracy and travelled to consult with patients including Grace Fane, Countess of Home (died 1633), Mary Sutton, Countess of Home (died 1644), Jean Gordon, Countess of Haddington, Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll and Colin Campbell of Glenorchy,[1] John Campbell, 3rd of Cawdor,[2] and James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose.
In January 1621/2 he treated Harry Drummond, the young son of John Drummond, 2nd Earl of Perth, advising that he should not have water baths. Harry's health appeared to be improving, but he died in September.[3]
Arnot died in November 1645.[4]
Arnot advised pregnant women and gave them talismans. Anna Balfour, Lady Elcho, the wife of David Wemyss, Lord Elcho and Earl of Wemyss, mentioned Dr Arnot in her will in June 1649. She wanted her son John Wemyss to have "the bloodstone and the bloodstone bracelet, with Doctor Arnot's stone that is for women in travail". [5] She listed tokens to be given to her dear friends, including, for her daughter Jean Wemyss, Countess of Angus, her "toadstone ring, with my leather belt I got from Doctor Arnot".[6] Anna Balfour and members of her family compiled a medical recipe book now held by the National Library of Scotland, (MS 3031).
References
- ↑ Janay Nugent, 'Your louing childe and foster: the fostering of Archie Campbell of Argyll', Nugent & Ewan, Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland (Edinburgh, 2015), p. 61.
- ↑ Cosmo Innes, Sketches of Early Scotch History and Social Progress; Church Organization the University, Home Life (Edinburgh, 1861), p. 417.
- ↑ Lives of the Lindsays, vol. 2 (London, 1858), p. 408: 'A Brief Account of the Life of John Earle of Perth', Spalding Club Miscellany, 2 (Edinburgh, 1842), p. 397.
- ↑ National Records of Scotland, Arnot, David: Wills and testaments, CC8/8/62, pp. 96-7.
- ↑ William Fraser, Memorials of the family of Wemyss of Wemyss, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1888), p. 232, modernised spelling here
- ↑ William Fraser, Memorials of the family of Wemyss of Wemyss, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1888), p. 233, modernised spelling here.
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