James Yonge to Hans Sloane – July 17, 1713
Item info
Date: July 17, 1713 Author: James Yonge Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043 Folio: ff. 164-165
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Medical, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship
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Subjects
Medical Cases
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Date (as written)
July 17, 1713
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Plymouth
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Others mentioned
Dr P.
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Patients mentioned
Unnamed Man
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Transcription
Yonge asks Sloane to present the enclosed medical cases to the Royal Society. 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 Unnamed Man
Gender:
Age:86 years old. -
Description
The woman had 'her Menses' at the age of seventy, but when it ceased she suffered from hemorrhoids. She was very healthy until the 'Flux ceased', which gave her gout. '[O]ne Year before she dyed there arose an Apostemation on one of her Wrists, which opened, and discharged much chalky matter and some stones. The day she dyed she arose out of her Bed, and after performing some Christian Devotion expired'. Yonge assures Sloane the woman was healthy until the flux of hemorrhoids.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response:Died.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Gout, Haemorrhoids, Menstrual, Blood, Cancer, Inflammations