Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – September 18, 1698
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Date: September 18, 1698 Author: Victor Ferguson Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: ff. 119-120
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English
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British Library, London
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Medical, Scholarship
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Books, Medicines
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Date (as written)
September 18, 1698
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Belfast
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John Colbatch
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Ferguson was intrigued by Colbatch’s writings on curing wounds. He asks for Sloane’s thoughts on the subject and offers his services to Sloane and his family. 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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