Letter 0355

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Peter Barwick to Hans Sloane – July 28, 1690


Item info

Date: July 28, 1690
Author: Peter Barwick
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 91


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Barwick is glad to hear the Duchess is doing better. He hopes the Duchess’ case, which was going to trial at the Court of Chancery, goes well. 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]).



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  • Patient info
    Name: Lady Elizabeth Monck (nee Cavendish), Duchess of Abemarle
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    [Lady Elizabeth Monck, nee Cavendish, later married Ralph Montagu, Duke of Montagu. Cokayne, Complete Peerage, vol. 1, p. 90.]

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    While her illness or the specifics of her treatment are left unstated, Barwick is glad to hear that she is apparently recovering and feeling better.

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    Unspecified