![W. R. of Gray’s Inn, Esq. [Walter Rumsey], Organon Salutis. An Instrument to Cleanse the Stomach. As also divers new Experiments of the virtue of Tobacco and Coffee: How much they conduce to preserve humane health (London, R. Hodgkinsonne for D. Pakeman, 1657), xxiv, 56pp.; 8mo. BL. ESTCR5405. Extract, pp. iii–xxiv, 1–39.](https://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/crclarge/978131509/9781315094618.jpg "W. R. of Gray’s Inn, Esq. [Walter Rumsey], Organon Salutis. An Instrument to Cleanse the Stomach. As also divers new Experiments of the virtue of Tobacco and Coffee: How much they conduce to preserve humane health (London, R. Hodgkinsonne for D. Pakeman, 1657), xxiv, 56pp.; 8mo. BL. ESTCR5405. Extract, pp. iii–xxiv, 1–39.")
ABSTRACT
Walter Rumsey (1584–1660), barrister and judge, was born in Llanofer, near Abergavenny, and educated at Oxford and Gray’s Inn, where he built a large and lucrative practice. A Royalist, he was dismissed from his judicial post in 1647 by Parliament, but continued to practice. His studies outside the law included gardening, agriculture and medicine. His close friend John Aubrey remarked ‘He was an ingeniose man, and had a Philosophicall head; he was most curious for grafting, inoculating and planting, and ponds’ (Brief Lives, ed. by John Buchanan-Brown (London, Penguin Books, 2000), p. 277).
