Dr. James Tilburg
Physician & Dentist
from Hambourgh ...
A few years after Cornelius became (in)famous in the capital, Dr. James TILBURG appeared in London, advertising himself as:
"Famous through Germany, Holland, Brabant, France and Italy, and is now living at the Black Swan in St. Giles in the Fields, over against Drury-lane end, where you shall see at night, Three Lanthorns with candles burning in them upon the Balcony. He may be spoke with, all alone, from 8 of the clock in the morning till 10 at night, desiring you to be careful for your own benefit not to mistake the place, because there is a new person that is lately come over, and hath presumed to make use of the bill and Peice which I did formerly make use of."
This was part of James' 'Peice', a woodcut representing himself, forceps in hand!
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The cures which James attributed to his skills were:
"First, He cures the French Pox, with all its dependents.
Secondly, He takes away all pains in the shoulders arms and bones, therefore all ye that are troubled, come to him before you are spoiled by others, for this secret art was never heard of or seen by any as by him."
The 'Thirdly' is missing, next came:
"Fourthly, If any have anchored in a strange harbour, fearing to have received damage, let them come to him.
Lastly, He helps them that have lost their Nature and cherishes up the sad'ned spirits of a Marrye'd man, by what occasion soever they have lost it, and does quicken them again as a Rose that hath received the Summer's dew."
From the "Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences"
by George Rosen, Yale University Dept. of the History of Science and Medicine, Project Muse, 1964
page 39
"... expert outlandish Doctor and citizen of Hamburg ..."
"He kept three lanthorns with candles burning upon the balcony of his lodgings. There is no indication that he was a relative of Cornelius. There is recorded, however, the grant of a pass to Johanna TILBURG and her two children to go to Holland on __ May 16__ ...."
1766, 22 March, Probate Will of Johanna TILBURGH or TILBURG, Spinster of Utrecht
(The National Archives, ref. PCC-PROB 11/917)
(Was this Johanna related to that mentioned above?)
I have no knowledge of any Will for this James TILBERG. (Caroline, September 2006 - February 2009)