Letter 0327

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Peter Barwick to Hans Sloane – June 27, 1690


Item info

Date: June 27, 1690
Author: Peter Barwick
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 85-86


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Transcription

Barwick is having some difficulty in his College, which is keeping him away. Peter Barwick (1619-1705) was a physician. He served Charles II in 1651 and was censor of the College of Physicians in 1674, 1684, and 1687. Sir Hans Sloane was one of the executors of Barwick’s will (Peter Elmer, ‘Barwick, Peter (1619–1705)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1614, accessed 9 July 2014]).



Patient Details

  • Patient info
    Name: Lady Elizabeth Monck (nee Cavendish), Duchess of Abemarle
    Gender:
    Age:
  • Description

    [Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, b. 1654, d. 1734. Later married Ralph Montague, Duke of Montague. Cokayne, Complete Peerage, vol. 1, p. 90.] Had 'a strong vomit in her stomach'.

  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:

    Her stomach felt better after 'ye Oatmeal'.


    Ongoing Treatment:
    Response:

    Lady Albemarle not improving despite treatment; her condition was just as bad as it was after previous treatments. These previous treatments include emetic wine. Barwick would like the Duchess to be given ten ounces of 'mere. vitae', and asks Sloane to let him know the results.

  • More information
  • Medical problem reference
    Stomach