John Ray to Hans Sloane – November 16, 1698
Item info
Date: November 16, 1698 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: ff. 155-156
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Medical, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship
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Subjects
Books, Jesuits, Philippines, Plants, Specimens
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Date (as written)
November 16, 1698
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Black Notley
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Others mentioned
James Petiver Paul Hermann Father Camelli
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Patients mentioned
John Ray
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Transcription
Ray thanks Sloane for sending him a package of books, as well as ‘a pot of Dioscordium’. Ray writes that Dr Hermann’s ‘Paradisus Botarus’ has taught him a great many things that will be useful in his Supplement. Father Camelli – a Jesuit priest whose full name is Georg Joseph Kamel – has sent plant specimens from the Philippines, the account of which is very good and detailed. Ray needs the opinion of the Royal Society on the possible inclusion of the account in the Philosophical Transactions. 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:71 years old. -
Description
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Diagnosis
Painful leg sores.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response:Ray has had one of his legs cut and drained, but this gives him no relief; the sores remain 'as painful & troublesome as ever'.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Pain, Skin ailments, Leg sores