John Ray to Hans Sloane – December 28, 1698
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Date: December 28, 1698 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: ff. 173-174
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English
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British Library, London
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Medical, Scholarship, Scientific
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Animals, Books, Botany, Dogs, Medicine, Recipes, Waters
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December 28, 1698
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Black Notley
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Paolo Silvio Boccone Dr Colbatch
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Ray discusses Paolo Boccones’ botanical work at some length, relating and reviewing its content for Sloane. Ray agrees with Sloane’s judgment of Dr Colbatch, but he still believes acids, such as that found in Tunbridge Waters, may cure gout. He details how to treat the bite of a mad dog. 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]).
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