John Morton to Hans Sloane – February 12, 1704/05
Item info
Date: February 12, 1704/05 Author: John Morton Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039 Folio: ff. 434-435
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Curiosity Reports, Medical, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship, Social
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Subjects
Beetles, Entomology, Insects, Publishing, Translations
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Date (as written)
February 12, 1704/05
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Oxendon
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Others mentioned
Mr Dudley
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Patients mentioned
Unnamed
Original Page
Transcription
Morton did not expect his translations would be published in the Philosophical Transactions, but thanks Sloane for the honour. He asks if Mr Dudley has shared his observations of strange, burrowing beetle. John Morton was a naturalist who was in correspondence with Sloane from roughly 1703 to 1716. Morton contributed nearly one thousand specimens (fossils, shells, bones, teeth, minerals, rocks, man-made artifacts, etc.) to Sloane’s collection (Yolanda Foote, Morton, John (16711726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19364, accessed 2 July 2013]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Unnamed
Gender:
Age:Infant. -
Description
Morton relays an account of a child born without a perforated anus. The boy eliminates feces through his penis. Morton wants to know if Sloane has any information on cases like this one.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Anus Imperforate, Birth Defect