James Yonge to Hans Sloane – March 9, 1708
Item info
Date: March 9, 1708 Author: James Yonge Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041 Folio: ff. 116-117
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Curiosity Reports, Medical
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Subjects
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Date (as written)
March 9, 1708
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Plim'o
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
Nathaniel Mitchell
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Transcription
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]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A Nathaniel Mitchell
Gender:
Age:Fifty years old. -
Description
Mitchell has suffered from pain due to urinary problems for two years.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Treatments have included 'glysters', nettle-root powder in white wine, mallow roots and 'corsinths' mixed with butter, and 'glysters' tinted with indigo.
Ongoing Treatment:
Response:Mitchell has died. Yonge regrets that the patient's wife buried the body instead of allowing him to dissect it.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Kidney, Pain, Urinary, Ulcer, Colics, Kidney, Urinary, Tumour, Pain, Stomach