Letter 1504

William Musgrave Sr. to Hans Sloane – April 11, 1707


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Date: April 11, 1707
Author: William Musgrave Sr.
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 340-344



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Musgrave outlines his work on arthritis ‘de Arthritide Anomala, Sive Interna, Dissertatio’, which was published in 1715. The letter was published at Phil. Trans. 1706, 25: 2435-2442. William Musgrave, Senior was a physician, antiquary, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He acted as second secretary to the Royal Society and edited several volumes of the Philosophical Transactions (Alick Cameron, Musgrave, William (16551721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19668, accessed 8 July 2013]).




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