{"id":6134,"date":"2014-12-10T23:27:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T04:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/?p=6134"},"modified":"2014-12-10T23:27:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T04:27:57","slug":"dream-dates-sir-christopher-wren-dreams-a-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2014\/12\/dream-dates-sir-christopher-wren-dreams-a-cure.html","title":{"rendered":"Dream dates: Sir Christopher Wren dreams a cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/80\/2014\/12\/wren-50.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6135\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/80\/2014\/12\/wren-50.jpg\" alt=\"- wren 50\" width=\"926\" height=\"517\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>An intriguing account by John Aubrey of how the celebrated architect who recreated St.Paul&#8217;s after the Great Fire of London dreamed a simple cure for a kidney ailment. I&#8217;ll leave the narrative in Aubrey&#8217;s voice. Note that &#8220;reins&#8221; in late 17th century English (as in modern French) means &#8220;kidneys&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"s7\">When Sir Christopher Wren was at Paris, about 1671, he was ill and feverish, made but little water, and had a pain in his reins. He sent for a physician, who advised him to be let blood, thinking he had a plurisy: but bleeding much disagreeing with his constitution, he would defer it a day longer: that night he dreamt, that he was in a place where palm-trees grew, (suppose AEgypt) and that a woman in a romantic habit, reached him dates. The next day he sent for dates, which cured him of the pain of his reins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"s8\">Since, I have learned that dates are an admirable medicine for the stone, from old Captain Tooke of K\u2014. Take six or ten date-stones, dry them in an oven, pulverize and searce them; take as much as will lie on a six-pence, in a quarter of a pint of white wine fasting, and at four in the afternoon: walk or ride an hour after: in a week&#8217;s time it will give ease, and in a month cure. If you are at the Bath, the Bath water is better than white wine to take it in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: John Aubrey, <em>Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects<\/em>\u00a0(1696)<\/p>\n<p>Image: Sir Christopher Wren on old British banknote. You can bank on dreams!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An intriguing account by John Aubrey of how the celebrated architect who recreated St.Paul&#8217;s after the Great Fire of London dreamed a simple cure for a kidney ailment. I&#8217;ll leave the narrative in Aubrey&#8217;s voice. Note that &#8220;reins&#8221; in late 17th century English (as in modern French) means &#8220;kidneys&#8221;. 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