Dr. Hans Sloane to Mr. John Ray – June 21, 1687
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Date: June 21, 1687 Author: Dr. Hans Sloane Recipient: Mr. John RayLibrary: The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by DR. Derham and Original Letters of John Ray, in the Collection of the British Museum Manuscript: The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by DR. Derham and Original Letters of John Ray, in the Collection of the British Museum Folio: 194
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English
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The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by DR. Derham and Original Letters of John Ray, in the Collection of the British Museum
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Cure, Specimen
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Subjects
Cryptanthus, Dog bite, Earth Star, Gresham College, Newmarket Heath, Royal Society, Star of the Earth, Surrey
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Date (as written)
June 21, 1687
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June 21, 1687
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Origin (as written)
London
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James II Huntsmen
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SIR,-I send you here inclosed the specimen of a plant
growing on Newmarket Heath, and in Surrey, known by the name of Star of the Earth in those parts. It is par- ticularly taken notice of on the account of its extraordi- nary and admirable virtue in curing the bitings of mad dogs, either in beast or men. One of his majesty’s huntsmen having proved it a great many times, gave the king his way of using it , which was an infusion in wine with treacle, and one or two more simples. His majesty was pleased to communicate it to Gresham College to the Royal Society; and nobody knowing the plant by that name, some there present confirming its use in that dis- ease in some places of England, and procuring the herb itself, it is as little known here as if it had come from the Indies. I told the Society I would let you have this best specimen of it, which I question not but it is known to you. If you please to give your sentiments about it, you will extremely oblige, &c.London, June 21, 1687
Other notes: Edwin Lankester, ed. The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by Dr. Derham, and original letters of John Ray in the Collection of the British Museum (London: Printed for the Ray Society, 1848), p. 194
Letter destination presumed as Black Notley as Ray’s location in his prior and letter and response to Sloane is Black Notley. Ray was also considered not to have left Black Notley after 1679.
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