Letter 1488

Posted on August 2, 2016 by -

Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine to Hans Sloane – March 8, 1687/8


Item info

Date: March 8, 1687/8
Author: Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 5


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Transcription

Hare sent a medal for Mr Charleton and invited Sloane to peruse it. He did not have time to examine the reverse of the medal found at Silchester. He has also been promised some more that have been found at Marlborough. Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine, was MP for Old Sarum and although his privy chamber office ended with the death of Charles II, he held local offices in Middlesex through the 1680s and 90s. In 1705, he published ‘The History and antiquities of the town and church of Tottenham’ (Nicholas Doggett, Hare, Henry, second Baron Coleraine (bap. 1636, d. 1708), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12299, accessed 8 July 2013]).



Patient Details

  • Patient info
    Name: Miss. Hare (Daughter of Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine)
    Gender:
    Age:A 'little One'.
  • Description
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:
    Ongoing Treatment:

    'In the manadg of the child', author has been using advice of 'an honest Acquaintance' nearby rather than Sloane's because of Sloane's distance. In any case, both agreed in general. Keeping child 'closer (then otherwise wee would)' because of the cold weather and her body being opened. Asks Sloane if they should give her asses milk.


    Response:

    Hare: 'so was I happy in yor Last Visit that nickt the time of my Girles illness & prescribed the first helps for her Recovery since by Gods mercy, her distemper advanced no further yn a Rank Measles; & her Cough is allmost gone away with itt, shee is now greatly purging (as farr as wee dare venture the churlish weather) & tho Weak yett nott Dull, nor affected with any bad symptome: so yt wee hope shee may scape both her former Ague, & the feared s: pox'. Has also lost her appetite.

  • More information
  • Medical problem reference
    Unspecified, Childhood Diseases, Measles, Smallpox