Letter 1958

James Yonge to Hans Sloane – May 23, 1714


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Date: May 23, 1714
Author: James Yonge
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 251-252



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Yonge received Sloane’s letter from January. He discusses the ‘making oil of Beach Moss’, which has been causing a lot of talk and asks for an issue of the Philosophical Transactions. 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]).




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