Notes on Newton's care for his mother John Conduitt c. 489 words Newton Project London 2006 Newton Project, Imperial College

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 c. 1727-8, c. 496 words, 4 pp. 4 pp. Account of Newton's manual dexterity [Keynes Ms. 130.09]Keynes Ms. 130Notes on Newton's character [Keynes Ms. 130.07] Keynes Ms. 130.08, King's College, Cambridge, UK UKCambridgeKing's College Keynes Mss Keynes Ms. 130.08 SL212

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Nor was he ever wanting in suitable returns of the sincerest warmest dgratitude & affection, he made frequentlyfrequent left the University journeys from Cambridge to visit her; & even at the time when he was in the warmest pursuit of those divine enchanting discoveries wchwhich made him forget his food & his rest & seemed to transport his imagination above all sublunary things he found still a greater pleasure delight in paying broke loose from them to pay his duty to her. In 1689 she went to Stamford During the sickness of fever of wchwhich she died & wchwhich she caught in nursing her son Smith in the same distemper at Stamford in 1689 he SrSir Isaac attended her constantly & with a more than true filial tenderness performed the duties both of a nurse & Physician he sitting sate up whole nights with her & givinggave all her all her Physick himself dressing her blisters himself & with great readiness & dex employed made use of employed that manual dexterity for wchwhich he was so remarkable in dressing her blisters in performing the operations always applied in that distemper with more pleasure the same readiness than he exercised it in the most delightful experiments

for wchwhich he was so remarkable, in all his experiments in dressing her blisters

or

in managing thesethe painfull remedies that are always to lessen the pain of that torturing remedy that are wchwhich is usually applied in that distemper

with as much readiness as he ever had employed it in the most delightfull experiments

This to come in to his private character

Nor was he ever wanting in suitable returns of the sincerest gratitude and affection, he made frequent journeys from Cambridge to visit her & even at the time when he was in the warmest pursuit of those enchanting discoveries wchwhich made him forget those his food & his rest & seemed to transport his imagination above all sublunary things, broke loose to pay his duty to her –

During the a malignant feaver wchwhich she caught at Stamford in 1689 in nursing her son Smith ofin the same distemper and of wchwhich she died at Stamford in 1689 SrSir Isaac attended her with a true filial piety, sate up whole nights with her, gave her all her Physick himself, & dressed all her blisters with his own hands made use of that manual dexterity for wchwhich he was so remarkable to lessen the pain wchwhich always attends the dressing the torturing remedy usually applied in that distemper with as much readiness as he ever had employed it in the most delightfull experiments

Or

& with great readiness an affecting tenderness employed that manual dexterity for wchwhich he was so remarkable in all his experiments to lessen as much as possible the pain wchwhich always attends the that is unavoidable in dressing thatthe torturing remedy wchwhich is usually applied in that distemper