James Yonge to Hans Sloane – May 7, 1708
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Date: May 7, 1708 Author: James Yonge Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041 Folio: ff. 136-137
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English
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British Library, London
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Medical, Scholarship, Scientific
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Animals, Disease Transmission, Epidemics, Horses, Plague
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May 7, 1708
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Plim'o
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Yonge describes a plague transmitted from people to horses. He believes it is peripneumonia caused by a wet spring and cold, dry winter. The plague is less prevalent than it was amongst the local people. James Yonge was a surgeon and physician of Plymouth with experience as a ship’s surgeon. He was a prominent citizen in his native Plymouth and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1702 (Ian Lyle, Yonge, James (16471721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30225, accessed 20 May 2011]).
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