Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – February 26, 1707
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Date: February 26, 1707 Author: Robert Sibbald Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040 Folio: ff. 313-314
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English
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British Library, London
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Government, Library, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Acts of Union 1707, Books, Medical Practice, Printing, Publishing
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February 26, 1707
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Sibbald informs Sloane most of the presses are preoccupied with printing articles on the Acts of Union. He has managed to print the ‘Lex Hippocatre […] in which I show the qualifications required in a good physician’. He sends a copy for Sloane’s library. Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII (Charles W. J. Withers, Sibbald, Sir Robert (16411722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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