Letter 1121

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John Thorpe Jr. to Hans Sloane – March 10, 1706/07


Item info

Date: March 10, 1706/07
Author: John Thorpe Jr.
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 321-322


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Thorpe delivered copies of Sloane’s ‘Histories’ to Dr Hudson and Mr Bobart. John Thorpe Jr. (1682-1750) began studying at University College, Oxford in 1698 and received his BA at Michaelmas in 1701, MA in 1704, MB in 1707 and MD in 1710. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705 and was Undersecretary of the Royal Society. He assisted his friend Sir Hans Sloane in publishing the Society’s Philosophical Transactions. He married in 1715 and settled as a physician in Rochester before turning to studying architecture, antiquities and history of the county of Kent in 1734. (Norman Moore and Rev. John Whyman, “John Thorpe (1682-1750) physician and antiquary” The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).



Patient Details

  • Patient info
    Name: N/A Joan Prouse
    Gender:
    Age:
  • Description

    Prouse suffered from a wen, a protuberance on the body, on her back. It weighed above 20lbs and had a 4-foot circumference.

  • Diagnosis

    A wen in the vertebrae of the back.

  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:

    For twenty years there was no surgeon willing to undertake the operation. Richard Harness removed the wen.


    Ongoing Treatment:
    Response:

    The wen was successfully removed.

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  • Medical problem reference
    Wen