Nathaniel Johnston to Hans Sloane – April 5, 1699
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Date: April 5, 1699 Author: Nathaniel Johnston Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: f. 242
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British Library, London
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Collections, Curiosity Reports, Medical, Scholarship
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Amerindians, Herbals, Medicines, Plants, West Indies
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April 5, 1699
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Johnston hopes Sloane had time to review the papers he sent and desires his opinion of them. He asks if Sloane has heard anything about a medicinal plant used by the Amerindians in the West Indies. If so, he wants to know whether Sloane can procure it. Johnston was a physician, antiquarian, and political theorist celebrated for his book ‘The Excellency of Monarchical Government’ (1686) (Mark Goldie, Johnston, Nathaniel (bap. 1629?, d. 1705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14946, accessed 21 June 2013]).
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