Letter 1076

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John Morton to Hans Sloane – August 29, 1706


Item info

Date: August 29, 1706
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 210-211


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Transcription

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

  • Patient info
    Name: N/A Unnamed
    Gender:
    Age:A girl.
  • Description
  • Diagnosis

    Greensickness; body swollen in reaction to vomiting.

  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:

    Was prescribed vomits.


    Ongoing Treatment:
    Response:

    Morton believes the vomiting was caused by the quality, not the quantity, of the purgative. The swelling was caused by the great mass of cheese and phlegm in the girl's system keeping the vomit from coming up as it should have.

  • More information
  • Medical problem reference
    Swelling, Greensickness, Birth Defect, Anus Imperforate