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John Fuller Jr.
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John Fuller (1706-1755) was Sir Hans Sloane’s grandson. He worked as an ironmaster, gunfounder, and eventually became MP of Boroughbridge in Yorkshire. Reference: J. S. Hodgkinson, ‘Fuller family (per. c.1650-1803)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47494 [accessed 24 Aug 2011]).
February 26, 2017
Letter 1548
John Fuller Sr. to Hans Sloane - April 11, 1707
Sloane MS 4040
ff. 338-339
August 2, 2016
Thomas Fuller
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Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) was a physician. He was admitted Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1678/9 and practised medicine at Sevenoaks, in Kent. Reference: (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1677 [accessed 24 March 2017]).
March 24, 2017
Measles in History
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The terror of smallpox lives on in popular memory, but measles are often dismissed by many as just a childhood disease: How much harm could it really cause? And aren’t childhood diseases useful for breaking in immune systems anyhow? We overlook measles at our peril, as recent outbreaks, such as the Disneyland one, have shown…. Read more »
January 31, 2015
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