Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – February 23, 1700
Item info
Date: February 23, 1700 Author: Charles Preston Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: ff. 372-373
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Curiosity Reports, Library, Medical, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship
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Subjects
Balfour Library, Botany, Catalogues, Curiosities, Drawings, Stones
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Date (as written)
February 23, 1700
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Edn. [Edinburgh]
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Others mentioned
Sir Andrew Balfour Sir James Balfour Sir Robert Sibbald
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Patients mentioned
Unnamed
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Transcription
Preston read the most recent Philosophical Transactions. He has some botanical catalogues for Sloane. A stone was found in a woman’s pelvis. He provides ‘figures of the stones’ for Sloane. A catalogue of Balfour’s Library is to be published. Preston was a physician and botanist who established a lengthy correspondence with Sloane, exchanging plants, seeds, books and information. His main interest was in botany, and was well-known by his contemporaries for his botanical knowledge (Anita Guerrini, Preston, Charles (16601711), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47084, accessed 18 June 2013]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Unnamed
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Description
The man was afflicted with 'a voiding of long hair att the penis and he was all wayes in horrid torment unill he passed them'. Stones were also found in the man's bladder.
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Medical problem reference
Stone, Kidney, Pain, Urinary