Wednesday 30 May 1660

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• N Paul Brewster on Sat 31 May 2003, 12:08am

  All yesterday and to-day I had a great deal of pain in making water and in my back
  per L&M.

• N Paul Brewster on Sat 31 May 2003, 12:11am

  my Lord had put me down for 70 guilders
  per L&M “About L7.” and “Gilder, Guilder: Dutch Money of account worth about 2s.”

• N David A. Smith on Sat 31 May 2003, 02:14am

  Is there a doctor in the house?
  *Limiting yourself to the evidence presented so far,* what has Sam got, how long will it last, and how can he cure it?

  (No, you may not prescribe bleeding, leeches, or incantations.)

• N language hat on Sat 31 May 2003, 03:37am

  “great deal of pain … and in my back”:
  It amazes me that the old edition is too squeamish to print “making water.” We’ve come a long way, baby!

  David: What, we can’t go by Theodoric of York?
  http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77rtheodoric.phtml

• N allan russell on Sat 31 May 2003, 04:02am

  great deal of pain…

  Has anybody else cosidered the delicious irony that we are reading a Bowlderised copy of Pepys on the internet, the content of which would have sent the said Reverend spinning in his grave.

• N Constance Coulter on Sat 31 May 2003, 05:24am

  alittle slow on the uptake,here. Does the old fashioned exclamation “oh my stars and garters” come from the Order of the Garter?—and if so,when did it come into use?

• N Mary on Sat 31 May 2003, 05:31am

  Sam’s symptoms

  sound very like a kidney infection in the two points that he mentions. However, he says nothing about any fever, which one might expect to find in an acute case. Second opinion, please.

• N David Bell on Sat 31 May 2003, 10:05am

  Remember that Sam was “cut for a stone”, a bladder stone, and in the diary records the anniversary and gives thanks to God.

  It was a dangerous procedure in those days.
  

• N A. De Araujo on Sat 31 May 2003, 12:38pm

  May be he was having a recurrence of the kidney stones,microscopic this time; he could have been dehydrated since it was the end of may and he was not drinking enough water and too much alcohol that might have precipitated it;speculation of course!…

• N Todd Bernhardt on Sat 31 May 2003, 01:59pm

  Sounds like a kidney stone to me!

  I think A. De Araujo is right … I have several friends who suffer with such stones, and the symptoms that Sam describes match perfectly. Remember, after all, that the bladder stone removed from Sam ultimately started in one of his kidneys and migrated (painfully, I’m sure) to the bladder, where it grew more. I also remember reading that when Sam died, an examination of his kidneys revealed that they were rife with stones.

• N Mike Hudak on Sat 31 May 2003, 03:13pm

  It’s interesting to note the progression of published diary text over time. Just the differences in the length of text for May 30th as published from the most current source on this website vs. some of the older versions is eye-opening -

  May 30th - “All this morning making up my accounts, in which I counted that I had made myself now worth about 80l., at which my heart was glad, and blessed God.”
  “Memoirs Of Samuel Pepys,” Esq. F.R.S. - (2 volumes) deciphered by Rev. John Smith, A.B. - Edited By Richard, Lord Braybrooke, Henry Colburn - S. And R. Bentley, Dorset Street, London 1825 (vol. 1 pp 55-56)

  May 30th - “I did eat a dish of mackarel, newly catched for my breakfast. All this morning making up my accounts, in which I counted that I had made myself now worth about 80l., at which my heart was glad, and blessed God.”
  “Diary And Correspondence Of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.”(4 volumes) deciphered by Rev. J. Smith with a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke - Bell & Daldy, London 1867 (vol 1 - p.77)
  

• N jamie yeager on Thu 26 Feb 2004, 09:38pm

  Since 29 December he’s doubled his money
  Sam reported 40l net worth on 29 December. Half a year later he’s doubled it to 80l. You’d do that every half year if you could…