John Ray to Hans Sloane – November 29, 1693
Item info
Date: November 29, 1693 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: f. 158
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Medical, Scholarship
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Subjects
Birds, Catalogues, Fish, Jamaica, Ornithology, Plants, Publishing, West Indies
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Date (as written)
November 29, 1693
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Black Notley
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Others mentioned
Awnsham Churchill Motte Charles Plumier
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Patients mentioned
John Ray
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Transcription
Sloane may contribute what he wishes on the subject of fish and birds to Ray’s Synopses, based on his ‘observation in Jamayca’. According to Mr Motte, Ray’s Catalogue will not be published for some time. Father Plumier ‘hath published at Paris two folios of West India plants’. Ray received nothing from Mr Churchill. Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A John Ray
Gender:
Age: -
Description
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Diagnosis
Painful sores on the patient's legs.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:Ray has been taking a "diet drink" made with materials provided by Sloane.
Response:The diet drink is causing a great defluxion of urine; it does help with the sores' running, but it increases the pain.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Pain, Ulcers, Legs, Skin ailments