Letter 1038

Patrick Dun to Hans Sloane – March 14, 1705/06


Item info

Date: March 14, 1705/06
Author: Patrick Dun
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 137-138



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Transcription

Sir Patrick Dun (1642-1713) graduated in arts at Merichal College in 1658 and studied at Valence in France. He became doctor of Physic of Trinity College, Dublin and in 1677 incorporated in absentia MD at Oxford. Dun was appointed physician to the state and to James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and elected one of 14 Fellows of the Irish College of Physicians. He was elected president of the College from 1681 to 1687. In 1683, he was one of the founding members of the Dublin Philosophical Society. Dun supported the study of Anatomy and arranged dissections of human bodies. He became one of the leading physicians in Dublin. In 1688, he supported the Willamite side and fled the country until 1689 when he was appointed physician to King Williams army. He was reelected president of the Irish College of Physicians in 1690, 1692, 1696, 1698 and 1706. Dun was married in 1694 and knighted in 1696. In 1705, he was appointed physician to the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. Dun died in 1713 after a short illness. (Davis Coakley, “Dun, Sir Patrick (16421713)”, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).




Patient Details

  • Patient info
    Name: Lady Ardglass
    Gender:
    Age:An infant. Probably Edward Southwell, b. 1705.
  • Description

    Dun finds the boy 'merry and grasping at everything he can'; he has no teeth cut.

  • Diagnosis

    Cough slowly abating; teeth and gums are still bleeding; constant running or dribbling from the mouth; more stools since he got sick, some of which are hard.

  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:
    Ongoing Treatment:

    Dun advised his nurse to give him 'whide drink sweetened with a little syrup of quinre' and to give him 'the mush of a julep with prepared coral' twice a day.


    Response:

    The boy seems 'very well'.

  • More information
  • Medical problem reference
    Pain, Tumour, Mouth, Coughs, Teething