I have been reading extracts from Robert Hookes diary located here between the dates 1672-1680, on at least eight occasions he describes taking vomit and sometimes even using a feather to induce vomiting.
The specific dates:
- 22nd April 1674
- 24th May 1674
- 30th May 1674
- 31st May 1674
- 18th August 1675
- 19 August 1675
- 2nd September 1675
- 16th December 1675
If you visit the site, you can just search for the word "vomit" and the entries under the dates will be listed in that order.
I can only presume that this is a treatment for something sold by the quacks of the time. I would like to know if it would really have been someone else's vomit (yuk) and for what purposes they would have prescribed it? Was this a common thing to do back then?