Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – February 4, 1697/8
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Date: February 4, 1697/8 Author: Victor Ferguson Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: f. 25
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English
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British Library, London
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Scholarship
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Books, Medical Practice, Natural History of Jamaica, Scotland
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February 4, 1697/8
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Belfast
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Sir Robert Sibbald
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Ferguson requests that Sloane send him the best new books. He asks for information regarding Sloane’s Natural History of Jamaica, Sibbald’s Natural History of Scotland, and a general reader on the theory and praxis of physic. Victor Ferguson (d. 1729) was a physician of Newtown, near Belfast (Toby C. Bernard, A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 (Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), ch. 5; “Fergusons of Belfast” URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colin/FergusonsOfIreland/Belfast.htm).
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