John Ray to Hans Sloane – July 12, 1697
Item info
Date: July 12, 1697 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: ff. 330-331
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Medical
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Subjects
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Date (as written)
July 12, 1697
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Black Notley
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
John Ray
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Transcription
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:70 years old. -
Description
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Diagnosis
Ray's ulcerous leg sores (which he refers to as herpes for lack of a better word) persist, but they are not bothering him to the extent that they were in his previous letter of July 7 (f. 328).
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ray took mercury 3 different times.
Ongoing Treatment:Ray has been ingesting Flower of Sulfur, and has been applying externally a concoction of 'Elecampane, Dark-root and chalk in whey' twice a day.
Response:The mercury did little but keep Ray from sleeping all night; he saw no effect in it drying or healing his sores; the effects of the other measures remain mitigative, not curative.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Skin ailments, Ulcerous Legs