Letter 1840

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Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – April 28, 1712


Item info

Date: April 28, 1712
Author: Patrick Blair
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 43-44


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Transcription

Blair is working on the distribution of his treatise on elephant bones. Patrick Blair was a botanist and surgeon whose papers were published in the Transactions. In 1715 Blair joined the Jacobite rebellion as a battle surgeon but was captured and condemned to death. He was visited by Sloane in prison in the hopes the latter might secure a pardon. Sloane was successful and the pardon arrived shortly before Blair’s scheduled execution (Anita Guerrini, Blair, Patrick (c.16801728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2568, accessed 31 May 2011]).



Patient Details

  • Patient info
    Name: N/A Gentleman's Son
    Gender:
    Age:
  • Description

    The boy has problems with his back and limbs; weakness.

  • Diagnosis

    Weakness.

  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:

    The boy was stood in cold water being churned by a mill.


    Ongoing Treatment:
    Response:

    After 'only three or four times [having cold water poured on his body] the weakness of his back and disability of his Limbs is quite recovered.'

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  • Medical problem reference
    Weakness, Injuries (includes wounds, sores, bruises), Back